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I've read every mail thus far (even the mails sent from next month <g>). |
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There is no technical reason that the profile shouldn't go in. Past |
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precedent is set, most of the kinks regarding the profile have been |
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worked out, yet members of the community are dead set against the idea. |
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I think I was dead set against it too, a few weeks ago. |
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However, everyone has the silliest of reasons, or so it seems. Everyone |
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is afraid of switching, fear is good, fear keeps one cautious. However |
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fear is also stifling, stifling innovation in this instance. Paludis is |
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a way forward, as is any portage rewrite. It has bugs yes, it works |
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for the most part yes. So why not give it a fair shot? |
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Fear the Slipperly slope: |
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First a new profile, then an eclass, then the tree! Paludis will take |
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control of everything! |
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Only if you let it. And to an extent, why not let it. Who has to |
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commit all that crap that uses all the new shiny features? Thats right, |
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developers do. If thats the way developers wish to go, than thats the |
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way Gentoo may go. Of course, you need to keep standards in the tree, |
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EAPI helps this a bit. Use something new in Paludis, EAPI it. Portage |
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will gladly mask it properly. This is where the problem lies however. |
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None of the paludis folk are asking for ebuild changes at this time. I |
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say give them their profile; tell them if they make any ebuild changes |
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you will cut their nuts off. Take it to the council and figure out a |
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plan for migration, since there is more than one alternative coming up. |
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We may need a plan similar to the CVS migration where someone goes off |
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and does some testing and figures out what is best for Gentoo. |
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The problem being with multiple implementations of something we have no |
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standard for...they all need to match ;) Otherwise paludis will end up |
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being...well..a fork. |
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-Alec Warner |
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