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On Tue, 16 May 2006 21:56:10 +0100 Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o> wrote: |
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| Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > Adding a new profile doesn't affect Portage unless Portage is told |
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| > to use that profile. And anyone telling Portage to use *any* invalid |
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| > profile is going to be in for a shock. |
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| I was more thinking along the lines of that there might be a lot of |
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| confusion if Paludis and Portage have varying feature sets, and do |
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| not maintain total ebuild compatibility both ways. We all know how |
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| keen our users are to try new stuff... |
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A large part of why Paludis exists is because I and several others were |
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sick of waiting for three years for Portage to provide certain basic |
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features. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk |
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