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 1FgPsS-0000aE-Ud for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 17:32:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4HHV7Zb014776; Wed, 17 May 2006 17:31:07 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4HHRcch010586 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 17:27:39 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF2F1640ED for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 17:27:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21724-07 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 17:27:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from netswarm.net (netswarm.net [212.55.200.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9543F6416F for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 17:27:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from netswarm.net (joker@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netswarm.net (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4HHRXQk008664 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 19:27:33 +0200 Received: (from joker@localhost) by netswarm.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k4HHRXb9008663 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 19:27:33 +0200 Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:27:33 +0200 From: Christian Birchinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Message-ID: <20060517172733.GA8512@netswarm.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20060516161549.442b4d8a@localhost> <200605171711.10418.pauldv@gentoo.org> <20060517162628.45ef827a@snowdrop.home> <200605171754.36820.ian@gentoo.org> 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200605171754.36820.ian@gentoo.org> X-Accepted-File-Formats: ASCII, .ps, .rtf, .pdf - *NO* Micosoft Office files please X-Info: No HTML mails please. text/plain is the official email format Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.599 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: e41d42e0-4481-47ad-9592-6929718c3a11 X-Archives-Hash: 2abb5974d5edee9b6348b89bf858bb4b On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 05:54:36PM +0200, Christian Hartmann wrote: > > Not realistic. It means that any new package manager can't do anything > > new. I'd also like to point out that you can't upgrade to a new Portage > > version, install some things, downgrade to an older Portage version and > > expect things to carry on working. > > This, funnily enough, is what people consider being a fork. > > While you are at it, why don't you just fork the portage tree? By doing so you > would have the freedom to do whatever you want to do without keeping gentoo > busy reading your mails. I'm interested so please talk only for yourself and not for gentoo asa whole. Thanks. Christian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list