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From: Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 12:23:10
Message-Id: 20060517132421.2cf908ea@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Wed, 17 May 2006 13:40:18 +0200
2 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Is there a problem about both of them being there?
5
6 You can't use both on the same ROOT. The VDB format is subtly different.
7
8 > I don't see a problem in changing the profiles to include
9 > virtual/portage though where portage is the default provider. It is a
10 > change unrelated to paludis, and would allow easier development of
11 > any alternative package manager.
12
13 This could be a viable alternative if the paludis profile is shown to
14 be a no-go. A seperate profile would make things easier from a
15 bug-wrangling point of view, since it would be easier to determine when
16 a bug may be caused by using paludis.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>