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From: Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@××××××××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:56:37
Message-Id: 200703311453.41877.csawtell@paradise.net.nz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis by Seemant Kulleen
1 On Saturday 31 March 2007, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 23:41 +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote:
3 > > > In which case your Paludis fork of Gentoo will take off like a
4 > >
5 > > Please, pretty please with sugar atop: Stop this FUD about forking
6 > > Gentoo. Paludis is not a fork of Gentoo, it's new package manager. The
7 > > relation between Portage and Paludis can, if at all, probably be
8 > > compared to dselect vs apt.
9 >
10 > Actually, I think we're reading him differently, Danny. I read
11 > Christopher's email as saying "base a fork of Gentoo, using Paludis as
12 > its package manager, and run with it." To me, he did not imply that
13 > paludis is a fork of gentoo at all.
14 Correct, because the only way Ciaran can prove beyond doubt that his Paludis
15 is a viable option is to see hundreds, nay millions, of people using it. I'm
16 quite sure that he won't achieve that goal by bleating in here as frequently
17 as he is currently.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o>