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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 21:44:49
Message-Id: 20060517223006.5ff63a1a@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Wed, 17 May 2006 17:00:10 -0400 Chris Gianelloni
2 <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
3 | Paludis does not conform to the Release Engineering guidelines. It is
4 | *incapable* of producing a Gentoo release. The authors have expressed
5 | their intentions to *never* perform any actions necessary to work
6 | towards making Paludis capable of producing a Gentoo release.
7
8 And what has producing a releng-style Gentoo release got to do with
9 using Paludis as a package manager? That's like saying ZSH shouldn't be
10 included in the tree until it can be used in place of bash.
11
12 | This is completely unacceptable to Release Engineering, and as such,
13 | it is my recommendation that no support be added to the *portage*
14 | tree to support paludis.
15
16 You mean the *gentoo-x86* tree, right? The only reason some people call
17 it the 'Portage' tree is that there's not previously been a need to
18 call it something else.
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21 Ciaran McCreesh
22 Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>