On Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:44:20 Kfir Lavi wrote:
> What was the aim of creating portage-utils?

goals:
 - small
 - fast
 - little to no dependencies
    - should require only modern C compiler & library
    - support binary packages
 - fully compatible with official Gentoo PM (i.e. portage
 - have fun

basically we deem python and friends to be way too heavy for embedded systems 
where most of the time you just want to install/update binary packages.  there 
is no desire at all to have portage-utils build packages from source.
-mike

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