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 1FgP5m-00043A-Ly for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:41:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4HGeWBD005088; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:40:32 GMT Received: from ppsw-7.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-7.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.137]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4HGWq93023447 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:32:53 GMT X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Received: from spb42.christs.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.233.172]:4383 helo=localhost) by ppsw-7.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.157]:25) with esmtpsa (LOGIN:spb42) (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1FgOx6-0004t4-PA (Exim 4.54) for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org (return-path ); Wed, 17 May 2006 17:32:48 +0100 Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 17:39:56 +0100 From: Stephen Bennett To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Message-ID: <20060517173956.3337e0bf@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200605171739.03359.pauldv@gentoo.org> References: <20060516161549.442b4d8a@localhost> <200605171713.31893.pauldv@gentoo.org> <20060517163026.2e6b149e@localhost> <200605171739.03359.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc4 (GTK+ 2.8.12; 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 Sender: "S.P. Bennett" X-Archives-Salt: f3a918de-40b8-45a0-a8b5-ecb7a56a6d82 X-Archives-Hash: ac3e4b9629f3ccb26294deb115e54c27 On Wed, 17 May 2006 17:39:02 +0200 Paul de Vrieze wrote: > 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. That would address some of the immediate concerns, but not any longer term issues -- the default provider in all profiles would still be portage, which requires nasty hackery at system install time, for a start. I'd view changing the system dep to the virtual as a good thing in itself, but not a substitute for a profile in the tree. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list