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From: Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed package move
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:35:25
Message-Id: 46059ce10605180424o440334d6x43d9e7626ac43d50@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Proposed package move by Paul de Vrieze
1 On 5/18/06, Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> wrote:
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3 > The package sys-apps/paludis is in the wrong category. It is a package
4 > manager on par with rpm, dpkg, etc. Those live in app-arch.
5 >
6 > Therefore I propose to move the paludis package to app-arch.
7 >
8 > It is not a system package at all. It does not even cooperate with system.
9 >
10 > Paul
11 " <longdescription lang="en">
12 The app-arch category contains tools for archiving, compressing and
13 uncompressing files or groups of files.
14 </longdescription>"
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16 paladius does just as much archiving, compressing, and uncompressing
17 as portage... actually less without binpkg support. Maybe it's not a
18 sys-app, but it sure isn't an archive app.
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23 > Paul de Vrieze
24 > Gentoo Developer
25 > Mail: pauldv@g.o
26 > Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed package move Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>