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From: Richard Marzan <richardmarzan@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:43:12
Message-Id: 1198127126.8900.0.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview by zsitvaij@gmail.com (Zsitvai =?utf-8?Q?J=C3=A1nos?=)
1 On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 22:42 +0100, Zsitvai János wrote:
2 > "b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com> writes:
3 > > I'd like to try Paludis, looks very promising.
4 > > I think I've read that Portage and Paludis can coexist happily. Can
5 > > someone confirm it? It would be useful for a transition.
6 >
7 > It works just fine. :) Later versions have the ability to use portage
8 > configuration files directly, but that makes you lose some advantages,
9 > like per-repository masking or unmasking of packages. I use a small
10 > script to keep portage and paludis config files in sync, so I can use
11 > whichever I want.
12 >
13 > The thing I like about it most is how it keeps overlays separate, so
14 > they don't override eclasses globally, or that you can even specify
15 > 'underlays' that are only used if neither the official portage nor any
16 > other overlays carry a specific package.
17 >
18 > And the recent addition of the option '--continue-on-failure' won me
19 > over all over again. :)
20 >
21 > János Zsitvai
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25 May i have that script? I assume it's GPLed :-)
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