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[Andrew McNaughton]

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Craig Edwards wrote:

>> Come to that, gentoo's emerge system is pretty good, having learnt a lot 
>> from FreeBSD's ports system, and then gone a few steps further.
>> 
>> Andrew
>> 
>
> I agree, however, i do not like the gentoo dependency upon python for its 
> package management system. It has not broken on me yet, however i can imagine 
> if it does it would be a nightmare to fix, as python is not a trivial 
> program. If FreeBSD ever were to attempt an emerge-like system, it would be 
> convenient imho (although probably less maintainable?) to have it done in 
> something smaller and easier to manage (and easier repair when broken?) such 
> as perl or shellscript.

I'm a fan of perl myself, but I don't really see that dependency on python 
is more of an issue than dependency on perl would be, or more of an issue 
than the current dependency of the portupgrade tools on ruby.

Andrew




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