Re: [gentoo-nfp] Some suggestions:

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Nikola Zivkovic wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2008 07:32:32 pm Caleb Cushing wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 January 2008 08:42:16 pm Nikola Zivkovic wrote:
> > > 2. Use paludis as default PM.
> >
> > no. reason... although I haven't tested it recently
> >
> > 1.) the last 2 times I tried it didn't work out of the box... it asked
> > for a config file... all programs should work (maybe not precisely the
> > way you want) out of the box. even apache and postfix can be started out
> > of the box.
> >
> > 2.) it's syntax is different. I don't want a new user interface... a new
> > backend would be fine. I think most users and admins would agree don't
> > change the interface unless it bring significant benefit.
> >
> > 3.) it's not completely backwards compatible and could potentially break
> > things. developers may not care about this but system administrators do.
> >
> > 4.) it's not done. get it to 1.0 and stable before asking it to replace
> > something.
>
> Naturally I meant to include it when it was finished.
> I am using 0.26... and it works very well. It is MUCH faster than emerge,
> the config scheme is cleaner and better organized IMHO, and the ooutput it
> provides in the console seems much cleaner to me.
> It doesn't work out of the box because you have to configure it. The
> configuration is relatively easy... especially if you use
> portage2paludis.bash.
> It hasn't broken anything for me and I've remerged world, gcc, system,
> security, etc. However when I used portage to remerge world for 3 days my
> machine kept crashing afterwards.
> I however hope that *if* paludis manages to win more users over from
> portage that it will be included as the default PM.

unfortunately, the driving reason for it not being default/supported PM is not 
technical, but the developer behind it.
-mike