elfs | Gentoo Perl vs Gentoo Python

So, I upgraded my editions of Perl and Python this morning on Pendorwright in my never-ending battle to get this thing up off the ground, and I discovered that the Python people at Gentoo really have their act together: when you upgrade, it tells you exactly how many packages were dependent and linked with the old version of python, how many dependencies their were, and approximately how long the upgrade will take.

In contrast, the Gentoo Perl upgrader does each dependency as an independent upgrade, meaning that you cannot know how long it will take nor how many packages you can expect to download. "It will be over when it's over," but there's no reasonable way to know when that will be.

Another reason why nobody will care about Perl 6, a project that ranks up there with Microsoft Vista and Duke Nukem Forever for "most delayed software ever that won't admit it should be canceled." Yes, I know, this isn't the fault of the perl or python developers per se, but this obligation to politeness and discipline is inherent in the way Python is implemented and constructed, and sloppy "ah, you're probably a programmer so you understand how it is blah blah" is very evident in the Perl community.