On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:16:32PM +0200, Wernfried Haas wrote:
> 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. 

Does the lack of responses mean everyone agrees to my point? We really
should figure that stuff out before we start integrating an externally
written package manager we have no influence on whatsoever - otherwise 
it would just be fair to do everything any other Gentoo based
distribution demands from us as well.

cheers,
	Wernfried

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