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Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> Ramon van Alteren wrote: |
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>> Well, basically he's right. Catalyst is a build tool that wraps all |
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>> the stuff you need to do when building packages in a chroot, with |
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>> some additional features |
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>> You don't need it.... it just saves time and a lot of work writing |
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>> your own scripts to manage the environment, and it's semi-maintained. |
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> You have an odd definition of "maintained". Chris (catalyst lead) and |
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> I (general code monkey) are actively working on catalyst. We just |
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> don't care much about features that don't directly benefit release |
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> building, since that's what catalyst's primary function is. If someone |
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> asks for a feature that doesn't affect building releases and submits |
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> code, we're very likely to throw it in. |
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Please, that's not what I meant, accept my apologies if that's what came |
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across. |
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What I meant with semi-maintained is that it is maintained as an |
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internal tool for building gentoo-releases and not as a general |
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system-images buildtool. |
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Reading it again I should have said that more clearly, sorry. |
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Ramon |
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