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From: Christian Hartmann <ian@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:08:19
Message-Id: 200605171754.36820.ian@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles by Ciaran McCreesh
1 > Not realistic. It means that any new package manager can't do anything
2 > new. I'd also like to point out that you can't upgrade to a new Portage
3 > version, install some things, downgrade to an older Portage version and
4 > expect things to carry on working.
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6 This, funnily enough, is what people consider being a fork.
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8 While you are at it, why don't you just fork the portage tree? By doing so you
9 would have the freedom to do whatever you want to do without keeping gentoo
10 busy reading your mails.
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Christian Birchinger <joker@g.o>