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Ok, we're now officially admitting that Paludis exists (really this |
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time), and is fit for an initial public release. Paludis is a library |
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providing ebuild-related utilities together with a simple command line |
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client. It is not a Portage rewrite, nor is it a Portage replacement, |
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although it could be considered to be on its way to becoming a Portage |
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alternative. |
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Many of the features in Portage are not present in Paludis. Some of |
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these features will appear in Paludis at a later date; some will not. |
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Paludis is not Portage compatible, and should not be used on the same |
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ROOT as Portage. Paludis will rape your dog. |
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The homepage is at [1], and includes a HOWTO explaining how to set up |
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a chroot built with Paludis. Note the bug tracker and mailing list; |
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discussion of this lot on Gentoo lists is highly discouraged since it's |
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not supported. The source can be found at [2] for those too lazy to use |
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Subversion. |
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Bug reports go via the bug tracker, preferably only after having |
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discussed them in #paludis. So far most bugs we've found have been user |
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or ebuild screwups. Feature requests and requests for doing stuff that |
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Portage does are not welcome unless they come with a decent patch or |
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are actually easy to implement rather than just looking like it; we are |
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at the "make it more or less sanely usable" phase, not the "make it nice |
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and shiny for end users" phase. Ricers will be terminated. |
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For a list of differences between Portage and Paludis, see [3]. The |
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list is not complete, nor does it attempt to be, but provides some |
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points of interest that are intentionally different. Some of these are |
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missing Portage features, while some are fundamental differences in |
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design. All are subject to change without warning or reason. |
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Paludis has been used to install at least one bootable system, complete |
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with Xorg and Fluxbox. There was a full moon at the time. It cannot |
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install Gnome because Gnome's deps are broken. It cannot install KDE |
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because no-one can be bothered sitting and watching Qt compile. |
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[1]: http://paludis.berlios.de/ |
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[2]: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6360 |
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[3]: http://paludis.berlios.de/PortageDifferences.html |
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