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** Dumb mode ** forgot to paste the exact size of the profiles dir in |
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my previous mail... woops :-) |
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First of all, keep up the work with Paludis. |
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Personally I think having a second package manager is a very good thing. |
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I do have some questions. Could someone of the Paludis crew please |
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answer them? |
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1) If Paludis has no business in replacing portage on systems (shame, if |
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it's better/faster it should) why are we having this discussion. |
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I understand that you need a profile and with an overlay you need to |
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copy the profiles dir (the whole profiles dir) but be serious that's |
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only 7.4 M |
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So my question would you be able to do tests without changing the |
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official tree by copying the profiles dir in an own overlay. |
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2) If Paludis will be installed on a system to test, and installs |
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packages, will portage be aware of that installation, and will it be |
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able to remove it (meaning Paludis changes the portage VDB correctly |
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when needed). (i've seen you explain that Paludis can read it but not |
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that it can write it correctly) |
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3) If using an own binary format will there be an extracter for it that |
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isn't part of Paludis? Why am i asking this? Well i've seen instances |
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when an upgrade broke something, and that was a dep of portage. So my |
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emerge couldn't revert back. So i just untarred the tarball and |
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recompiled it. (might not be the cleanest way, but the only way i found |
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in certain situations). |
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4) Will Paludis ever become a Gentoo Project? |
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Thank you very much for the hard work! |
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Jochen |
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"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends" |
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"Ne humanus crede" |
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Jochen Maes |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Gentoo Belgium |
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http://sejo.be |
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http://gentoo.org |
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