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 1Fg6n4-0006qX-KC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 21:09:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4GL6Vve014812; Tue, 16 May 2006 21:06:31 GMT Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.8]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4GKsolG008431 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 20:54:50 GMT Received: from [172.23.170.143] (helo=anti-virus02-10) by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fg6Z8-0002Ln-IU for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 21:54:50 +0100 Received: from [213.121.151.206] (helo=snowdrop.home) by asmtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1Fg6Yr-0001Zc-Ss for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 21:54:33 +0100 Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 21:54:11 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Message-ID: <20060516215411.778a9172@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <446A3C6A.6080704@gentoo.org> References: <20060516161549.442b4d8a@localhost> <446A2398.9070705@gentoo.org> <20060516205732.32a047fd@snowdrop.home> <446A3C6A.6080704@gentoo.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: a0dd14ef-36d4-4bf0-8bf2-8a2fe9610ee9 X-Archives-Hash: fafe6da02013110dcf6bdaecbb4649c5 On Tue, 16 May 2006 21:56:10 +0100 Daniel Drake wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Adding a new profile doesn't affect Portage unless Portage is told | > to use that profile. And anyone telling Portage to use *any* invalid | > profile is going to be in for a shock. | | I was more thinking along the lines of that there might be a lot of | confusion if Paludis and Portage have varying feature sets, and do | not maintain total ebuild compatibility both ways. We all know how | keen our users are to try new stuff... A large part of why Paludis exists is because I and several others were sick of waiting for three years for Portage to provide certain basic features. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list