From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 10:03:10 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <26f3b3b7fc6f7e8e8d90094305925bdd@kw.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <3c68655ad1dadf393d44b4a945abbd7a@swcp.com> References: <6aaf2d79af665bf1905db13e44e194e5@quanstro.net> <3c68655ad1dadf393d44b4a945abbd7a@swcp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] nupas update Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2481e4b4-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 portage is horrid. i hate it more every time i use it. and it doesn't work. revdep rebuild is proof. it's not clear to me that this is gentoo's fault. linux and gnu together are one heck of a difficult place for a distribution to live. but replicating portage would seem to me to be a big mistake. not only does the plan 9 community lack the resources to maintain 30 different versions of /bin/cp (or whatever), much less portage redux, it will encourage gnu/linux habits, because that's what it's built for. we should build something that encourages a simplier system, a system plan 9 people would really want. - erik