From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fg5gu-0008Q1-Jw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:58:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4GJuuSa025978; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:56:56 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4GJutT7011159 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:56:56 GMT Received: by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 518) id 6792964314; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 15:56:54 -0400 From: Seemant Kulleen To: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-qa] Support of other package managers Message-ID: <20060516195654.GA260@woodpecker.gentoo.org> References: <20060516174812.GE7092@aerie.halcy0n.com> <448F0F30.3000302@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-qa@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <448F0F30.3000302@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 52235468-15ca-4564-9834-7be3e0d3d34b X-Archives-Hash: 051f48ac2f70c5ffc74afcdf1dcc8ade This issue is certainly a dicey one. I don't think there is an easy to define answer. It has always been assumed that a portage rewrite (whether it were a third party reimplementation in a !python language, or pkgcore/paludis or portage-ng) would just fit right into the tree, without making changes of any kind at all. So I think the question that we need to answer is *what* changes are necessary to the profiles and *why* -- or I suppose, why would paludis/pkgcore need to have its own profile? I think it would be a lot easier to see what it is that needs this sort of change before we can make an informed call about it. thanks, Seemant -- gentoo-qa@gentoo.org mailing list