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 1FgU2T-00052t-FA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 21:58:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4HLvT0s006566; Wed, 17 May 2006 21:57:29 GMT Received: from smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4HLmL59015352 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 21:48:21 GMT Received: from [172.23.170.140] (helo=anti-virus02-07) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FgTsT-0002Ky-5a for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 22:48:21 +0100 Received: from [213.121.151.206] (helo=snowdrop.home) by asmtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1FgTsS-0006d8-LE for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 22:48:20 +0100 Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 22:47:59 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Message-ID: <20060517224759.12fb2c25@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20060517213247.GE30696@woodpecker.gentoo.org> References: <1147881924.16876.45.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20060517172926.477daaed@snowdrop.home> <1147889572.16876.60.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20060517195046.589df365@snowdrop.home> <1147896729.7315.5.camel@Kefka.anyarch.net> <20060517212245.35e9b40a@snowdrop.home> <20060517203947.GA30696@woodpecker.gentoo.org> <446B8C4C.5090403@gentoo.org> <20060517205614.GD30696@woodpecker.gentoo.org> <20060517223010.00351219@localhost> <20060517213247.GE30696@woodpecker.gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; 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 X-Archives-Salt: 25c10358-cc53-410b-b823-8409cbb30250 X-Archives-Hash: f0fa1971bb489fb9e182264b6d62adfb On Wed, 17 May 2006 21:32:47 +0000 plasmaroo@gentoo.org (Tim Yamin) wrote: | On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:30:10PM +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote: | > On Wed, 17 May 2006 20:56:14 +0000 | > plasmaroo@gentoo.org (Tim Yamin) wrote: | > | > > Well, if you're going to have a package manager that delivers the | > > same result as Portage it must therefore work with Catalyst... | > | > Paludis can produce the same end result as Portage. The reason it | > won't work with catalyst is that the interface is different. | | ... so thus you claim it can produce binpkgs (I'm not bothered about | the interface, but the support to produce said binpkg must be there | and also to utilize said binpkg to install things)... and it can't. No, we claim that it can install a system (very suckily and messily, right now, but in the future when we're claiming that it can install a system *nicely*, it won't be in the slightest bit inelegant). | Yes, getting this thread back on-topic would be nice. Then stop taking potshots. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list