| 1 |
On Thursday 18 May 2006 13:24, Dan Meltzer wrote: |
| 2 |
> On 5/18/06, Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> wrote: |
| 3 |
> > The package sys-apps/paludis is in the wrong category. It is a |
| 4 |
> > package manager on par with rpm, dpkg, etc. Those live in app-arch. |
| 5 |
> > |
| 6 |
> > Therefore I propose to move the paludis package to app-arch. |
| 7 |
> > |
| 8 |
> > It is not a system package at all. It does not even cooperate with |
| 9 |
> > system. |
| 10 |
> > |
| 11 |
> > Paul |
| 12 |
> |
| 13 |
> " <longdescription lang="en"> |
| 14 |
> The app-arch category contains tools for archiving, compressing |
| 15 |
> and uncompressing files or groups of files. |
| 16 |
> </longdescription>" |
| 17 |
> |
| 18 |
> paladius does just as much archiving, compressing, and uncompressing |
| 19 |
> as portage... actually less without binpkg support. Maybe it's not a |
| 20 |
> sys-app, but it sure isn't an archive app. |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
It does it as much as rpm and dpkg do. As I don't think it is a good idea |
| 23 |
to create a app-pkgmanager group I think it is best to put it with the |
| 24 |
other package managers in the tree. |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
In any case it does not belong in sys-. It is not comparable with portage |
| 27 |
as it is an unsupported, third-party, package manager. Worst of all, |
| 28 |
conflicts with the official package manager. As anything in sys- is |
| 29 |
system and as such core to the distribution, I think that anything which |
| 30 |
does not cooperate with system, but even conflicts with it does not |
| 31 |
belong there. |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
Paul |
| 34 |
|
| 35 |
-- |
| 36 |
Paul de Vrieze |
| 37 |
Gentoo Developer |
| 38 |
Mail: pauldv@g.o |
| 39 |
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
Archives