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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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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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cheers, |
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Wernfried |
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