Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:07:54
Message-Id: 20070327220315.350c0022@snowflake
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems) by Stephen Becker
1 On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:47:35 -0400
2 "Stephen Becker" <spbecker@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > > I'd advise everybody to try paludis and pkgcore to see how the
4 > > > alternatives are faring, I must say that I'm quite surprised by
5 > > > how fast they are.
6 > > Please could you reassure us that they can co-exist with portage so
7 > > that one can be certain that changing to either paludis or pkgcore
8 > > is not irriversable?
9 >
10 > I can't speak for pkgcore, but paludis coexists with portage just
11 > fine.
12
13 Mmm, although Paludis will let you install things that Portage can't
14 handle unless you set 'portage_compatible = yespleasedaddy' in
15 environment.conf... Only an issue if you use the paludis client,
16 adjutrix etc don't modify anything.
17
18 --
19 Ciaran McCreesh

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