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On Thu, 18 May 2006 15:26:06 +0200 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> |
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| Then copy the bloody profile, or temporarilly add some magic in |
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| paludis that ignores portage and python deps. Not that hard to do. |
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| While not so beautiful it can easilly be removed at a later stage. |
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That removes valid dependencies. |
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| How far does that spread? Is this only for packages merged by |
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| paludis, or does it spread? And what reasons are there for paludis |
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| not to have a vdb format that will not confuse portage. |
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Anything merged by Paludis may have a VDB entry that will confuse |
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Portage. This is necessary for two reasons. Firstly, we have some |
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features that Portage doesn't. Secondly, the VDB entries generated by |
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Portage under certain circumstances (symlink/dir merge mismatches) are |
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incomplete and incorrect, and Portage's unmerge code will falsely |
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remove and falsely leave behind garbage when this happens, and we see |
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no reason to emulate this bug. |
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| It is very important that package managers coexist with portage. This |
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| allows testing of that package manager, but also the testing of a |
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| package / eclass on different package managers. It would be |
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| irrealistic to require devs to have a different installation just for |
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| testing packages with paludis/pkgcore. |
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Can you install Portage 2.0 and Portage 2.1 in parallel? |
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| > > 4) Will Paludis ever become a Gentoo Project? |
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| > Doubtful, barring some rather drastic changes in Gentoo and the way |
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| > its projects are handled. |
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| So you are asking to go towards replacing portage with a package |
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| manager that is not under gentoo control? |
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What about Portage is under Gentoo control? Were Portage under Gentoo |
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control, it would have the features that Gentoo developers require by |
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now. Like, say, :slot deps. Similarly, Gentoo has no problem with bash, |
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despite it not being a Gentoo project... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk |
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