This is not only about adding a profile, but if paludis is officially
supported by being in the tree and profiles, fixes for paludis get
into the tree etc, this sounds like paludis is a Gentoo project and users
will expect it to work and be supported. They will be allowed to ask
questions about something not working with paludis on the forums,
mailing lists, on irc etc without being off-topic.
So far and with respect to other distributions (like e.g. Vida,
Kororaa or whatever they were called) a rule of thumb was:
A Gentoo system uses the official portage tree, was installed using
the Gentoo installation guide using Gentoo stages, etc - and which was
rather implicit - using portage as package manager. As far i
understand it paludis differs from that in many ways.
So before the package manager gets optional and we support something
quite different we really should figure out what we consider a Gentoo
installation. 

cheers,
	Wernfried

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