On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 19:35 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>
> > a good topic for the next council meeting i think would be to start
> > up a spec of requirements that a package manager must satisfy before
> > it'd be an official package manager for Gentoo ... off the top of my
> > head:
> > - the main developers need to be Gentoo developers
> > - source code hosted on Gentoo infrastructure
> > - compatible "emerge" and "ebuild" binaries
>
> As you know fine well, the Council has already rejected GLEP 49, which
> says more or less that. As you also know fine well, those requirements
> mean Gentoo will permanently be stuck with Portage (and when dreaming
> up silly and biased requirements, bear in mind that Portage was at one
> point close to being moved off Gentoo infrastructure because of the
> huge
> delays in setting up svn...).
Wouldn't this be the same as all MTAs providing sendmail compatibility?
Whereas existing tools still Just Work?
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