Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of A Gnome UI for Portage

[Mathieu Roy]

Hi,

Could you create a tarbal with the code as it now exists
and make it available to a temporary URL or send it to me ?


> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden,
> address@hidden
>
>
> Curtis Callender <address@hidden> described the package
> as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License:
> Package: A Gnome UI for Portage
> System name: gemerge
> This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
>
> Description:
> My project is designed to present the user with a GUI frontend for
> Gentoo Linux\' Portage interface.  This will be coded in
> GTK/GDK/Gnome, as there is already a KDE interface for just such a
> thing.  The Portage system is Gentoo\'s package management system.
> I\'ve noticed that the majority of Gentoo\'s users are KDE, along with
> the majority of Gentoo\'s developers.  Because of the lack of a Gnome
> frontend, I\'ve decided to put my programming skills to good use.
> This will be done in C/C++.
>
> Perhaps most users are KDE users?  I wonder why?  *grin*.
>
> Anyways, It does not exist yet but I\'m working on it.
>
> Other Software Required:
> The only software to work properly is Gentoo\'s Portage system, which
> is covered under some Open-Source license.  The future release of
> Portage 2.0 will use some database backend (right now the File System
> is used) but that has yet been undertermined.  I am sure that it too
> will be OpenSource.


>
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Mathieu Roy

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