From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fg5pX-0001vQ-LU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 20:07:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4GK4aIG029683; Tue, 16 May 2006 20:04:36 GMT Received: from smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4GJsTTQ031606 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:54:29 GMT Received: from [172.23.170.143] (helo=anti-virus02-10) by smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fg5cj-0005sN-HP for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 20:54:29 +0100 Received: from [213.121.151.206] (helo=snowdrop.home) by asmtp-out1.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1Fg5ci-0001aw-Cm for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 20:54:28 +0100 Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 20:54:06 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Message-ID: <20060516205406.641fd204@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20060516182318.GA23899@dst.grantgoodyear.org> References: <20060516161549.442b4d8a@localhost> <20060516161618.GB28745@nightcrawler> <20060516174742.66cf8f04@snowdrop.home> <20060516173356.GC28745@nightcrawler> <20060516190705.0f865431@snowdrop.home> <20060516182318.GA23899@dst.grantgoodyear.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 54537d0f-028b-4143-b123-3e73439b66aa X-Archives-Hash: 821c20ffc10f1b736da8e2ba161a4ba5 On Tue, 16 May 2006 13:23:18 -0500 Grant Goodyear wrote: | Just to clarify my own poor understanding, if somebody builds a box | using paludis and then decides that she'd really prefer to use portage | instead, isn't that going to require a reinstall (at least until | there's a program that takes a paludis installed-package database and | can generate the equivalent portage db)? Yeah. Paludis -> Portage is losing features, so the conversion won't work that way. Portage -> Paludis is sort of doable currently, and can be made to work if it's considered important (which it will be, at some point in the future). -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list