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Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: |
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> Hiya all, |
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> |
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> Just a quick note to let you know that the Paludis guys are happy to |
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> inform you that they've just released version 0.6.0 of Paludis, the most |
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> popular and widely used alternative to Portage. With this release |
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> they're finally more or less VDB compatible with Portage, so switching |
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> to and from Paludis is considerably more likely to work. |
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> Paludis works with the normal ebuild tree, and can be expected to work |
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> with most ebuilds that aren't webapps. As demonstrated by it not being |
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> called "1.0", there are still bugs, missing features and general |
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> oddities; thus Paludis is not suitable for production systems, and if |
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> you care more about your data they encourage you to still use Debian. |
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> However, Paludis is now more or less usable for atleast some people, and |
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> it would be nice to get more testing from people who know what they are |
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> doing. |
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> More information can be found at http://paludis.berlios.de/ . In |
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> particular, the |
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> "Known Issues" and "Portage Differences" links may be of interest. There's also |
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> a #paludis IRC channel on Freenode. |
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> Ebuilds are in the main tree as sys-apps/paludis. Gentoo's bugzilla should *NOT* |
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> be used for Paludis related issues, except for any bugs with the Paludis ebuild |
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> itself. |
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> As it no longer will rape your dog, I suggest you check it out. |
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> With love, |
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> Christelxx. |
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My dog has long since been a fan of Paludis version. I will sadly have |
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to break the news to my dog. |
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Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/ |
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