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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 15:55:51
Message-Id: 200605171739.03359.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles by Stephen Bennett
1 On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:30, Stephen Bennett wrote:
2 > On Wed, 17 May 2006 17:13:31 +0200
3 >
4 > Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> wrote:
5 > > At this point I don't see that paludis is ready for such thing. In
6 > > any case I think that optimally a package manager does not require
7 > > its own profile.
8 >
9 > It doesn't require its own profile. What does require a new profile is
10 > sanely running a paludis-based system without needing to have Portage
11 > and all its dependencies installed.
12
13 Wouldn't the introduction of the virtual not fix that. This introduction
14 could be done independent of anything related to paludis. The
15 introduction of such a virtual would also help other package managers
16 like pkgcore.
17
18 Paul
19
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21 Paul de Vrieze
22 Gentoo Developer
23 Mail: pauldv@g.o
24 Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o>