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On Thu, 18 May 2006 20:33:05 +0200 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> |
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| > There is no such thing as a primary package manager and using such a |
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| > term only serves to distract from what could otherwise be productive |
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| > discussion. |
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| Why so. Portage is the one and only (thus primary) package manager |
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| for the gentoo tree. It is by itself responsible for the database of |
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| installed packages. This responsibility can only be held by one |
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| package manager at the time as multiple databases would create |
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| conflicts and / or missing information. That means at a system there |
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| is a primary package manager. |
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Circular argument. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk |
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