On 08/14/2013 10:56 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > > If you want PMS to go away, and call portage the one-and-true PM for > Gentoo, then it's probably something for the Council to decide. >
I think that would make sense. We don't have enough resources for such fun and overcoming PMS burdens has been a major concern for everyone who is looking to improve basic functionality. In the end, people rather go for eclass solutions or just give up. That has brought us to the current discussion, to base.eclass and to the multilib eclasses with a very painful way of migration. Mind that I am an author of one of those eclasses as well, so I'm not generally objecting. But it's a fact that portage multilib was held back basically by useless PMS politics, so that we can support alternative PMs like paludis. And that's not the only thing that is annoying about PMS and the politics behind it. Gentoo has become very slow in terms of decision making and progress. GLEPs to improve security are "not implemented" for _years_ and people have no idea whether we need a PMS section for that or not. It wasn't really discussed and not one bothers anymore.
