On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:30, Stephen Bennett wrote: > On Wed, 17 May 2006 17:13:31 +0200 > > Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > At this point I don't see that paludis is ready for such thing. In > > any case I think that optimally a package manager does not require > > its own profile. > > It doesn't require its own profile. What does require a new profile is > sanely running a paludis-based system without needing to have Portage > and all its dependencies installed. Wouldn't the introduction of the virtual not fix that. This introduction could be done independent of anything related to paludis. The introduction of such a virtual would also help other package managers like pkgcore. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net