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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 12:27:42
Message-Id: 200705301420.52583.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added) by "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
1 On Wednesday 30 May 2007 05:39:01 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
2 > However, paludis does have some missing features that may be critical for
3 > your environment: binary packages (both building and using)
4
5 True. And it misses pkgmoves and slotmoves (profiles/updates/*).
6
7 > and a revdep-rebuild equivalent (although this can be hacked around)
8
9 With the ruby use flag there's check_linkage.rb.
10
11 > AND you can't "simply" switch between using paludis and emerge/portage; they
12 > use the same VDB, but repositories are configured differently
13
14 So if you want to use both at the same time you can either keep their configs
15 synchronized manually or use the portage use flag for paludis and run it
16 with '-E portage' (the latter loses features though).
17
18 --
19 Bo Andresen

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Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added) "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.net>