On Thursday 13 March 2008 14:34:50 Natanael Copa wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 00:35 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > I offer my help to fix DEPEND/RDEPEND split issues which is causing me > > a lot of headaches (along with localizations). > > For reference, please have a look here: > > http://planet.sabayonlinux.org/?p=105 > > I'm another distro builder that uses the Gentoo framework. I can only > agree. I had to roll my own binary package format and after a short > while I had to do the dependencies myself and just ignore RDEPEND since > it was close to useless. > > While Gentoo is fantasitc to build stuff, the binary packagement has > some serious issues. It would be really nice if Gentoo could be better > on supporting other binary only package managers.
We can all agree that Gentoo's binary package support leaves a lot of room for improvement. But to fix that you need to come up with real solutions and be prepared to discuss them here and through our bugzilla. And accept the fact that it will take time... On top of that you need to be able to accept that we might not agree with your proposed solution for some of the issues... -- Bo Andresen Gentoo KDE Dev
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