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On Thursday 18 May 2006 20:42, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 18 May 2006 20:33:05 +0200 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | > There is no such thing as a primary package manager and using such a |
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> | > term only serves to distract from what could otherwise be productive |
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> | > discussion. |
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> | Why so. Portage is the one and only (thus primary) package manager |
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> | for the gentoo tree. It is by itself responsible for the database of |
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> | installed packages. This responsibility can only be held by one |
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> | package manager at the time as multiple databases would create |
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> | conflicts and / or missing information. That means at a system there |
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> | is a primary package manager. |
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> Circular argument. |
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Let me repeat it in primary school language. |
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A supported statement is one which has the form: |
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<reason 1> <reason 2> ... <Statement> ... <reason n-1> <reason n> |
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In short a supported statement has reasons that aim to argue why the statement |
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is true. |
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You say that there is no such a thing as a primary package manager, but fail |
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to state any reason (here or in other mails) as to why this is true. Instead |
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of arguing why my support is false you just say that I am saying things that |
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are not true. This is an unbased accusation. |
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This last email is close to slander. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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