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On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 21:05 +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote: |
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> Am Dienstag, 16. Mai 2006 20:35 schrieb Gustavo Zacarias: |
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> > Stephen Bennett wrote: |
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> > > That's my proposal. The benefits I like to think are obvious. The |
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> > > drawbacks are, as far as I can see, in tree size, which should be |
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> > > minimal. Those concerned about local tree size can exclude it, and |
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> > > for size on the mirrors it's trivial compared to the rest of the |
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> > > tree. |
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> > > |
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> > > Comments? |
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> > |
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> > As long as it's outside the "stable" (200x.y) portage profiles i'm |
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> > fine with it for SPARC. I think Ferris was testing paludis so i'm |
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> > sure he can handle it. |
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> > With respect to the "hey support omg!" comments i say stick a big fat |
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> > README about being an experimental profile or something like that and |
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> > that's it. Usually bug reports require "emerge --info" so it'll be |
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> > easy to flag invalid ones anyway. |
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> |
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> [Disclaimer: I'm involved in paludis development and may be biased] |
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> I talked with the other AMD64 leads about adding a paludis subprofile to |
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> default-linux/amd64. Blubb said he'd rather have a global profile, |
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> Kingtaco state to be neutral in regard to adding another amd64 |
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> subprofile. I'd rather have a global profile, too. |
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> Summary: amd64 team can live with a paludis profile, we prefer to have a |
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> global profile, though. |
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> PS: |
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> As a sidenote to people who test or play with paludis and find packages |
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> that don't compile/install: Please don't file bugs with gentoo. Come to |
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> #paludis and discuss with us. If we tell you to do so, file bugs with |
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> paludis@×××××××.de. We are really interested to know which packages |
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> don't work. |
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(Wearing my Release Engineering hat): I implore anyone planning on |
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adding something like this to keep it *outside* of default-linux. A |
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paludis/* set of profiles, much like hardened or uclibc, would be the |
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best approach for this, if it ends up being accepted. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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