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On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 09:48 -0400, Nicholas Jones wrote: |
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> Please don't rely on quickpkg. If there is a particular reason |
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> you aren't thinking ahead and using '-b', I would suggest a |
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> paradigm correction or filing a bug to portage-dev. |
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> Qquickpkg, while nice, may fly under the radar occasionally. |
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> Quickpkg is not used is catalyst (at least I hope it isn't), |
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> and thus doesn't get the testing that -b does. (I test with |
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> catalyst before big/sweeping/confusing/weird changes.) |
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Hrrrmn... the problem is that we don't want to provide a bunch of binary |
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packages, but rather want to build them from the installed packages on |
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the LiveCD itself. We already build packages with catalyst (when using |
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pkgcache) the right way, we just don't want to have to add the "bloat" |
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to the LiveCD. Using quickpkg allows us to make a more feature filled |
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LiveCD and removes GRP from the picture altogether (once it is all |
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working) without removing the capabilities that GRP provides (reference |
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platform, quick installs, binary packages). |
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Remember that we're just getting started on working on this, so I don't |
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expect to see if really being used for some time. If we need to start |
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doing more testing on quickpkg, then I can start pushing out |
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experimental versions of these things to get wider testing. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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