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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: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:26:24
Message-Id: 200605172113.23795.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Wednesday 17 May 2006 18:19, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 >
3 > Know why this thread's so big? People like you posting crap to it and
4 > interfering with what would otherwise be a technical discussion.
5
6 It should not be a technical discussion. I am sure that adding a profile to
7 the tree is not a technical problem. The problem is how we are going to
8 ensure that we keep control over our package manager, and ensure that this
9 package manager actually functions acceptably (it or a newer version of it
10 working with all packages).
11
12 Once paludis shows its stability and fitness to replace portage with a
13 reasonable complete featureset I would probably be in favour of having it
14 replace portage. At that point a feature spread would certainly be welcome.
15
16 Paul
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19 Paul de Vrieze
20 Gentoo Developer
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