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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 18:32:52
Message-Id: 200605182022.32578.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thursday 18 May 2006 20:02, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Thu, 18 May 2006 19:14:16 +0200 Wernfried Haas <amne@g.o>
3 >
4 > Bash is Gentoo's primary shell. ZSH cannot be included in the tree as
5 > the primary shell unless it can work with every bash shell script
6 > (including ebuilds) without any changes (including paths and
7 > environment variables) to anything. ZSH cannot be included in the tree
8 > as a secondary shell if it can be used to do anything that Bash can do,
9 > including generating the .bash_history file. ZSH cannot be included in
10 > the tree if it has any features that Bash does not.
11
12 You can't seriously mean that. I'm not even going to try to point out that
13 this is a rediculous analogy as you will not get the point anyway.
14
15 Also paludis can be accepted in three if it does things that portage does not
16 do. Ebuilds in the tree that are not specific to paludis must continue to
17 function with portage. Otherwise the official package manager would not be
18 able to use the official tree.
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20 Paul
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23 Paul de Vrieze
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