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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 21:58:41
Message-Id: 20060517224759.12fb2c25@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles by plasmaroo@gentoo.org (Tim Yamin)
1 On Wed, 17 May 2006 21:32:47 +0000 plasmaroo@g.o (Tim Yamin)
2 wrote:
3 | On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:30:10PM +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote:
4 | > On Wed, 17 May 2006 20:56:14 +0000
5 | > plasmaroo@g.o (Tim Yamin) wrote:
6 | >
7 | > > Well, if you're going to have a package manager that delivers the
8 | > > same result as Portage it must therefore work with Catalyst...
9 | >
10 | > Paludis can produce the same end result as Portage. The reason it
11 | > won't work with catalyst is that the interface is different.
12 |
13 | ... so thus you claim it can produce binpkgs (I'm not bothered about
14 | the interface, but the support to produce said binpkg must be there
15 | and also to utilize said binpkg to install things)... and it can't.
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17 No, we claim that it can install a system (very suckily and messily,
18 right now, but in the future when we're claiming that it can install a
19 system *nicely*, it won't be in the slightest bit inelegant).
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21 | Yes, getting this thread back on-topic would be nice.
22
23 Then stop taking potshots.
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26 Ciaran McCreesh
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