W dniu czw, 22.03.2018 o godzinie 20∶17 +0000, użytkownik James Le Cuirot napisał: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:03:46 +0100 > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > After 2+ years of repeating disagreements with Portage maintainer(s) > > I have finally decided to fork Portage. My little fork uses technical > > name of 'portage[mgorny]' [1] (to distinguish it from mainline Portage), > > and aims to focus on cleaning up code and adding useful features with > > less concern for infinite bug-by-bug compatibility. > > I hope you will continue with our efforts to drive regular Portage > forwards too. It's been a long road but also very productive. > > I notice that your fork cannot be installed at the same time as regular > Portage. I think this will really hinder any interest in it.
Making them co-installable would require creating divergent packages and eventually making a huge mess of almost-identical-but-different Python modules. It's not worth the effort, especially that the two projects are not that divergent. > As > Gentoo developers, we obviously have to make sure things work with the > official package manager and that goes for you too. Would it be > possible for them to coexist? I'm not saying I'll try it though, just > making a suggestion. :) As Gentoo developers, we have have to make sure things work with *all* package managers. That's why we have standards and policies. Unlike mainline Portage, portage[mgorny] follows those policies strictly and therefore any ebuild that works with it should also work with mainline Portage. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
