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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:04:45
Message-Id: 200605191555.18085.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles by Roy Marples
1 On Friday 19 May 2006 09:33, Roy Marples wrote:
2 > Maybe you haven't noticed, but baselayout is a virtual - which does make
3 > things harder as the main "forks" (vserver and fbsd) sometimes break when
4 > we add new things and they haven't synced up yet.
5
6 I have nothing against a virtual. I just don't think polluting the profile
7 subtree with alternative package mananger stuff is good idea.
8
9 > But that's OK as they're supported I guess.
10 >
11 > Or are you saying that spb, other devs and people outside of Gentoo who has
12 > submitted SoC applications about Paludis (or what that qaludis?) are just
13 > going to wack it into the tree and then say "we're not going to support
14 > it"?
15 >
16 > Of course not!
17
18 No, I'm saying it's not the Gentoo package manager. Work on it, make it a
19 viable contender for replacing Portage, but as long it isn't, keep it in an
20 overlay.
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23 Carsten