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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Profiles Part 2
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:16:48
Message-Id: 200606122307.34608@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Profiles Part 2 by Stephen Bennett
1 On Monday 12 June 2006 22:58, Stephen Bennett wrote:
2 > I would like to think that this proposal addresses most of the concerns
3 > raised in the last thread -- it implies nothing about support for any
4 > other package manager, and introduces nothing that could cause problems
5 > for Portage users, while still allowing alternative package managers to
6 > use the tree without needing Portage installed.
7 This seems to be more acceptable. The implicit unstated dependencies on Python
8 are something that will also be interesting to find out (especially for
9 packages building Python modules automagically).
10
11 As far as no change is requested to final users and that the information
12 reported on bugs can be safely recognized as belong to one or the other
13 package manager, it seems sane.
14
15 --
16 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
17 Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Profiles Part 2 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>