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From: Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:28:49
Message-Id: 200703302341.26115.kugelfang@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis by Christopher Sawtell
1 Am Freitag, 30. März 2007 23:13 schrieb Christopher Sawtell:
2 > On Saturday 31 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:13:18 +0100
4 > >
5 > > Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o> wrote:
6 > > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:50:59 +0100
7 > > >
8 > > > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org> wrote:
9 > > > > A few years ago Gentoo had some serious advantages over the
10 > > > > competition. These days, Gentoo is at serious risk of being Red
11 > > > > Queened by Ubuntu and Fedora. Providing the same thing that was
12 > > > > provided two years ago isn't enough. If Portage can't deliver
13 > > > > functionality that makes Gentoo competitive with where Ubuntu
14 > > > > will be a year from now, Portage has to be replaced.
15 > > >
16 > > > You seem to be under the misapprehension that Portage == Gentoo.
17 > >
18 > > No no, I'm saying that at present Portage is one of Gentoo's most
19 > > severe limiting factors.
20 >
21 > In which case your Paludis fork of Gentoo will take off like a
22 Please, pretty please with sugar atop: Stop this FUD about forking
23 Gentoo. Paludis is not a fork of Gentoo, it's new package manager. The
24 relation between Portage and Paludis can, if at all, probably be
25 compared to dselect vs apt.
26
27 Don't reply to this mail, just let it drop. Thank you very much.
28
29 Danny
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31 Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o>
32 Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o>