Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On Wed, 17 May 2006 11:13:09 -0700 Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
wrote:
| > Paludis can read a Portage-generated VDB. Portage can't read a
| > Paludis-generated VDB, because Paludis has more features.
| 
| What features?  You're tracking CONFIG_PROTECT_*, and saving a copy
| of the eclass (icky solution, but we've discussed that in the past).
| 
| Beyond that?

Right now, the biggie is virtuals. Attempting to unmerge a virtual that
was installed via Paludis will confuse the heck out of Portage. There's
also the whole "handling symlink / directory mismatches" issue, which
will cause Portage to incorrectly unmerge some Paludis-installed things
(and, for that matter, some Portage-installed things).

| > | - Paludis must work with all current ebuilds, 
| > 
| > Portage does not work with all current ebuilds.
| 
| Name a few please, ones that are portage incompatibility rather then 
| "ebuild no longer works against other ebuilds in the tree".  Can't do 
| anything about the latter, but the former without proof is fud.

We went over this already. Remember webapp.eclass?

| > | and support all features of portage. 
| > 
| > That's insane. Why should we support Portage-style 'candy' spinners?
| 
| I'd expect he's talking more about stuff like having an ebuild 
| binary/script for walking the phases of an ebuild for development.

Heh. You keep on picking out things that you think will be difficult to
implement.

| > | This includes recognition of EAPI
| > 
| > Funnily enough, unlike Portage, Paludis has full EAPI handling.
| 
| Please clarify on the "full"- since portage relies on EAPI protection 
| already, any issues you see with it's implementation I'd love to know.

Portage still relies upon being able to source ebuilds, even if their
EAPI isn't supported.

| Additionally, you went and commited the vars into paludis (doing 
| exactly what I said to do), thank you- lets avoid the 5 emails back 
| and forth in the future however please...

Yes, we now have ~15 lines of useless code. But if that's what it takes
to make you happy...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail            : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk


-- 
gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list