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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 06:01:38
Message-Id: 20050503080543.4a421af8@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager by Brian Harring
1 On Mon, 2 May 2005 21:48:10 -0500
2 Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Clarify why portage, which _does_ function as a secondary pkg manager
5 > (collision-protect wouldn't exist otherwise) wouldn't suffice if
6 > someone gave enough of a damn to do the work?
7
8 Off-topic, but collision-protect wasn't written for that purpose but to
9 detect broken/conflicting packages. The macos project just uses it.
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11 Marius
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