Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Wed, 17 May 2006 16:55:17 -0400 Chris Gianelloni
<wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
| On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 20:55 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > The plan, which may be full of holes, may change and may just be me
| > being crazy, is to replace using a stage with something like:
| 
| OK.  So not only are you planning on replacing portage, you're
| planning on replacing Release Engineering.  Thanks, but we are not
| interested.

Not so much replacing as removing the need for.

| > paludis --config-suffix install --install system
| > 
| > which will then go off and grab the relevant binary packages from a
| > remote location and merge them onto ROOT. Being able to do something
| > along these lines is a) one of several reasons for --config-suffix
| > and b) a large part of why I don't want to use the Portage tbz2
| > format, where metadata and contents aren't separated.
| 
| Remote location, huh?  What about non-networked installations?

Remote location can be somewhere else on a filesystem.

| > Assuming the above ends up not being insane, then yes.
| 
| Which would have to be accepted by the Release Engineering project.
| Perhaps this point has been lost on you up until now.

*shrug* Not an issue. The whole thing removes the need for traditional
releases.

| > I'm pretty sure it would be easier to just not use anything in the
| > installer that relies upon VDB when using Paludis. The installer
| > code is flexible enough to make this not tooooo tricky.
| 
| You mean like *all* of the GRP-handling code?

Also no longer necessary.

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Ciaran McCreesh
Mail            : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk


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