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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
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> lxnay@××××××××××××.org wrote: |
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>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Philipp Riegger <lists@××××××××××××.de> |
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>>> See also the discussion about mixing package managers |
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>>> between Gentoo and Sabayon. I do not want these problems. |
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>> incorrect. Give it a spin ;) |
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>> Problems we have were *only* related to Portage world file handling, |
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>> fixed some time ago. I am sorry to say that the issue reported here |
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>> doesn't seem to be valid. |
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>> Of course, if you mix both, you need to pay attention to not change USE |
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>> flags (for eg.) that trigger libraries compilation, but that's a known |
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>> binary-world problem. |
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> So are we going to discuss this or not? |
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> To quote your own words back at you: |
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>> This is gentoo-dev and you are OFF TOPIC. |
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>> Next time, please post Sabayon specific stuff on our ML/com. channels. |
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My answer was completely in-topic. Even because it was just an answer.
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Your rants were totally OT, OTOH.
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> *If* you want to promote entropy/equo (or other sabayon work) as a |
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> possible solution here, you should be open to discuss its shortcomings. |
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> If not, then you should refrain from bringing it up again. |
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If you are just trying to annoy me, give up. It's not working ;)
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I was just answering, my friend.
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> To get back on topic: I think portage's current binary support works |
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> reasonably well, based on some experience I have with building packages |
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> for a second, slower machine. But I can see there are shortcomings, |
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> mainly in the described problem of storing multiple versions of a binpkg |
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> (with different useflags etc.). |
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> I agree with Duncan that we do not want a change of focus away from |
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> being a source-based distribution, but then that is not a change you |
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> would be able to "sell" to the current developers anyway. That said, |
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> there could very well be a Gentoo project, or people contributing to |
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> portage development, to try and improve binary package support. |
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> Ben de Groot |
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> Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) |
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> Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison |
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Fabio Erculiani |
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