Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Required Features for $package_manager to Aid... Development!

2006-09-09 Thread Luca Barbato
Elfyn McBratney wrote: [snip] 1- provide a standardized api for the queries/commands (C, C++, python, perl, ruby) 2a either provide an emerge or 2b make emerge and equery use 1 and be just a front-end That way other tools won't have to be rewritten for a specific manager, advanced/experimental st

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Required Features for $package_manager to Aid... Development!

2006-09-06 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:29:11AM +, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > Hola, > > I've been inspired by the local/global USE flag threads recently > posted by Doug (Cardoe), and it got me to thinking... I've recently > joined the pkgcore development effort, and was asked by Brian > (ferringb) what I'd

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Required Features for $package_manager to Aid... Development!

2006-09-06 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Hola, I've been inspired by the local/global USE flag threads recently posted by Doug (Cardoe), and it got me to thinking... I've recently joined the pkgcore development effort, and was asked by Brian (ferringb) what I'd like to hack on/what my niggles with portage are. My personal one is why upda