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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 16:22:10
Message-Id: 20060518171325.767b10f8@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Thu, 18 May 2006 11:52:49 +0200 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | This is not the standard, nor what portage does.
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5 Portage has a bug that causes it to die a horrible death if ebuilds are
6 not source-compatible. We do not emulate this bug, because there is no
7 useful reason to do so and because handling it properly is only another
8 half dozen lines of code.
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11 Ciaran McCreesh
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