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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 21:09:36
Message-Id: 20060517215328.50834b97@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles by plasmaroo@gentoo.org (Tim Yamin)
1 On Wed, 17 May 2006 20:39:47 +0000 plasmaroo@g.o (Tim Yamin)
2 wrote:
3 | So if it can give the same end result, it can be a replacement. So
4 | hence paludis should be able to do what Portage + Catalyst now do.
5 | Which you've not-so-clearly said is not the case; unless paludis has
6 | now manifested the ability to generate bootable ISOs across nine
7 | architectures, which it clearly hasn't. Therefore paludis can not
8 | deliver the same end result as Portage.
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10 If that were the argument, that wouldn't be so bad (although remember
11 that some archs can't use ISOs to install, and so only use Catalyst
12 things for the stages). On the other hand, ISO building isn't a
13 priority, since we can nick ISOs from elsewhere.
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16 Ciaran McCreesh
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