Christian Hartmann wrote: [Tue May 16 2006, 12:10:18PM CDT]
> Oh lovely. - If noone has any strong reasonable objections, I'd like
> to add a $ians-playground profile to the tree. Furthermore I will
> start to keywording ebuilds with the new ~fridge keyword I just
> invented.

Hyperbole?

> How is paludis related to gentoo? Hardened and the other things you
> mentioned are gentoo projects. - Paludis is not.

That's not really a fair statement.  Porthole and various other tools
began (and in some cases remain) as non-Gentoo-owned projects, but
numerous portage changes have been made over the years to support those
tools better.

Paludis and pkgcore are related to gentoo because they are both designed
to work with Gentoo's portage tree.

> It's not about the size or the number of files. We have got enough - let's 
> call it $stuff - in the tree. I'd really like to see valid and reasonable 
> things added to the tree. - Adding things just because someone thinks it 
> would be funny to add it to the tree can't be the way gentoo wants to go.

It appears, at least from what I've read, that the additions to the tree
would be both minimal and narrowly focused.  Why would that not be valid
or reasonable?  Also, I don't believe that anybody is attempting to be
"funny", but instead to provide a potentially useful set of tools that
need a lot of hammering on.

> > Comments?

Wouldn't a paludis profile lead to an explosion of children profiles
that depend on it, or is the profile "mixed-in" with a standard profile?
In either case, might it be easier to have a /usr/portage/paludis
directory for paludis-specific content?  (The opposite, but equally
ignorant, question that I had was if it wouldn't be simpler to add the
paludis-specific stuff to the existing files, and have portage ignore
it.)

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