On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 21:22 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 17 May 2006 16:12:09 -0400 Daniel Ostrow > wrote: > | Unfortunately in this case there is only one cat, he has only one skin > | and there is only one knife with which to skin him. Chris asked if > | paludis can build a release (meaning an official Gentoo release), > | which means following the Release Guidelines to the letter. > > If you look at it that way (which isn't what he actually asked to begin > with), then the question is "is Paludis identical to Portage?", which > it clearly isn't. A more useful question is "can Paludis give the same > end result as Portage?". It can not. Paludis, by your own admission, can not and will not build portage-compatible binary packages. This is a simple binary equation. Can paludis provide a portage-compatible binary package? No. This means it does not give the same end result. Period. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux