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 1FgNpf-0003XY-2E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 15:21:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4HFJQZV016802; Wed, 17 May 2006 15:19:26 GMT Received: from callisto.cs.kun.nl ([131.174.33.75]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4HFDWRt011631 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 15:13:32 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by callisto.cs.kun.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24AAC2E800D for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 17:13:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 17:13:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060516161549.442b4d8a@localhost> <200605171340.18766.pauldv@gentoo.org> <20060517132421.2cf908ea@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060517132421.2cf908ea@localhost> X-Face: #Lb+'V@sGJ;ptgo5}V"W+5OCoo{LZv;bh,s,`WKLi/J)ed1_$0;6X<=?utf-8?q?700LVV/=3BLqPhiDP=5E=0A=09=27f=5Dfnv?=@%6M8\'HR1t=aFx;ePfp{ZQoBe+e)JOQ8T5*(_;mHY+cltLGq<;@$Y,=?utf-8?q?O=5C=24=0A=09Tm=23G6M?=,g![Q62J{na*S9d;R[^8pc%u\aiLqU@`kJtYl"^6pxdW 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1916062.QLvJr4pz6d"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200605171713.31893.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 4f8b01e1-6f9b-4b55-be88-1d459f76d534 X-Archives-Hash: 611135c760078eaa665e7a9d04c17cf5 --nextPart1916062.QLvJr4pz6d Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 17 May 2006 14:24, Stephen Bennett wrote: > On Wed, 17 May 2006 13:40:18 +0200 > > Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > Is there a problem about both of them being there? > > You can't use both on the same ROOT. The VDB format is subtly > different. So this would be an effort to prevent users to shoot themselves in the=20 foot. > > > I don't see a problem in changing the profiles to include > > virtual/portage though where portage is the default provider. It is a > > change unrelated to paludis, and would allow easier development of > > any alternative package manager. > > This could be a viable alternative if the paludis profile is shown to > be a no-go. A seperate profile would make things easier from a > bug-wrangling point of view, since it would be easier to determine when > a bug may be caused by using paludis. At this point I don't see that paludis is ready for such thing. In any=20 case I think that optimally a package manager does not require its own=20 profile. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart1916062.QLvJr4pz6d Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEaz2bbKx5DBjWFdsRAoVOAKDSZyo02JG95LTumNWnHwZvVyURxQCeMifR gTH4pIdWE862b3vNDA91M6g= =nYpS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1916062.QLvJr4pz6d-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list