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On Wednesday 17 May 2006 10:23, Wernfried Haas wrote: |
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> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:16:32PM +0200, Wernfried Haas wrote: |
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> > This is not only about adding a profile, but if paludis is officially |
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> > supported by being in the tree and profiles, fixes for paludis get |
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> > into the tree etc, this sounds like paludis is a Gentoo project and users |
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> > will expect it to work and be supported. They will be allowed to ask |
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> > questions about something not working with paludis on the forums, |
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> > mailing lists, on irc etc without being off-topic. |
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> > So far and with respect to other distributions (like e.g. Vida, |
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> > Kororaa or whatever they were called) a rule of thumb was: |
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> > A Gentoo system uses the official portage tree, was installed using |
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> > the Gentoo installation guide using Gentoo stages, etc - and which was |
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> > rather implicit - using portage as package manager. As far i |
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> > understand it paludis differs from that in many ways. |
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> > So before the package manager gets optional and we support something |
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> > quite different we really should figure out what we consider a Gentoo |
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> > installation. |
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I see no difference between this and other external projects which have an |
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impact on the tree, like say gcc. If a gentoo dev puts an alpha of gcc in and |
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it's package masked and stuff, then I expect devs that put Paludis in the |
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tree to provide a similar level of support. |
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I will happily provide support for baselayout and what I put it in the tree, |
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but I'll provide exactly the same level of support for Paludis as I do for |
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Portage - nothing. |
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> Does the lack of responses mean everyone agrees to my point? We really |
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> should figure that stuff out before we start integrating an externally |
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> written package manager we have no influence on whatsoever - otherwise |
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> it would just be fair to do everything any other Gentoo based |
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> distribution demands from us as well. |
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Tell you what, you figure out the internals of baselayout or we'll remove it |
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from the tree. I think a few Gentoo dev's know Paludis internals enough to |
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support it. |
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Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o> |
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Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking) |
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