Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am 26.01.2014 20:45, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> On 26/01/2014 21:29, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> Am 26.01.2014 19:04, schrieb hasufell:
>>> So, not sure where your optimism comes from. But... some devs are
>>> interested in starting from scratch or picking up pkgcore (which would
>>> be the most sane thing to do IMO).
>> please do. Please please pretty please.
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> This topic came up on -dev two weeks ago, many people share your
> sentiment. But TheRealWorld intrudes, so the general consensus that was
> reached is
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> - pkgcore must first be gotten to EAPI-5; this is a non-trivial amount
> of work
> - portage is never[1] going to go away
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> [1] never is defined as "for the foreseeable future"
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portage does not need to go away. But we do need an alternative.