On Sat, 20 May 2006 14:54:18 +0200
Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> *Primary Package Manager*  
>    There  is one primary  package manager.

Gentoo has always been about choice, could you explain what is the rationale 
behind having only one primary package manager?

> All ebuilds in the tree must function with the primary package
> manager.

I definitely see this is as a requirement. One thing I am wondering is, who is 
responsible for testing the over 24,000 ebuilds in the tree to make sure that 
they work with the new package manager? Is it the package manager team, arch 
teams, package/herd maintainers, arch/herd testers, or others?

> The primary package manager is maintained on official gentoo infrastructure,
> under control of gentoo developers.

I don't really see this as a requirement. Many Linux distributions use package 
managers that they don't have direct control over. Ubuntu uses apt, Mandrake 
uses rpm, etc.

~tcort

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