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On Thu, 18 May 2006 09:19:58 +0200 |
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Jochen Maes <sejo@g.o> wrote: |
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> 1) If Paludis has no business in replacing portage on systems (shame, |
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> if it's better/faster it should) why are we having this discussion. |
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> I understand that you need a profile and with an overlay you need to |
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> copy the profiles dir (the whole profiles dir) but be serious that's |
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> only So my question would you be able to do tests without changing |
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> the official tree by copying the profiles dir in an own overlay. |
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We could put profiles in an overlay, but it would require adding |
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support for inheriting profiles relative to another repository path |
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rather than relative to the current directory. Doable, but another |
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place to be incompatible with Portage, so something I'd like to avoid |
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having to do if possible. |
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> 2) If Paludis will be installed on a system to test, and installs |
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> packages, will portage be aware of that installation, and will it be |
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> able to remove it (meaning Paludis changes the portage VDB correctly |
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> when needed). (i've seen you explain that Paludis can read it but not |
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> that it can write it correctly) |
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Paludis can read a Portage VDB last time I tried, but a |
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Paludis-generated VDB will confuse Portage. |
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> 3) If using an own binary format will there be an extracter for it |
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> that isn't part of Paludis? |
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Yes; it's called tar. |
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> 4) Will Paludis ever become a Gentoo Project? |
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Doubtful, barring some rather drastic changes in Gentoo and the way its |
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projects are handled. |
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