From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-07-08T13:41:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Packaging ideas (was: Re: packaged REXML)

Holden Glova wrote:

>> Are these goals achievable within the framework of rpkg?
> 
> Sounds practically like portage :)

Are you kidding?  It /is/ Portage.  I started this discussion with 
Massimiliano trying to see if I could get him to add Portage-like features 
to rpkg.

The one feature I'm lobbying hard for, the CVS support, I'm also campaigning 
for in Portage... check bugs.gentoo.org :-)

I've been using RedHat and Mandrake for years now; I've been running Gentoo 
on a server for only a couple of weeks, and already I'm considering 
converting everything over to Gentoo just for the Portage support.  It is 
amazing how much difference a decent package management system can make.  
That said, I'm really happy with the work Massimiliano has done on rpkg; as 
I told him, I was really worried that Ruby would go the CPAN route, which 
is probably the worst system I've ever encountered.

--- SER