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 1FgiyD-0008TH-BA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 May 2006 13:55:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4IDshtQ017635; Thu, 18 May 2006 13:54:43 GMT Received: from ppsw-0.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-0.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.130]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4IDpAhc014053 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 13:51:11 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]:14090 helo=localhost) by ppsw-0.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.150]:25) with esmtpsa (LOGIN:spb42) (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1Fgiu5-0001sI-12 (Exim 4.54) for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org (return-path ); Thu, 18 May 2006 14:51:02 +0100 Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:58:08 +0100 From: Stephen Bennett To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Message-ID: <20060518145808.14d20da7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200605181526.06635.pauldv@gentoo.org> References: <20060516161549.442b4d8a@localhost> <446C201E.3060705@gentoo.org> <20060518131102.397fda08@localhost> <200605181526.06635.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: f079b8e0-b18e-453a-8304-fb9e041b4374 X-Archives-Hash: 44c122a6efa2d366fdcdef6693328aab On Thu, 18 May 2006 15:26:06 +0200 Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Then copy the bloody profile, or temporarilly add some magic in > paludis that ignores portage and python deps. Not that hard to do. > While not so beautiful it can easilly be removed at a later stage. And if something really does require python? > How far does that spread? Is this only for packages merged by > paludis, or does it spread? And what reasons are there for paludis > not to have a vdb format that will not confuse portage. A VDB entry created by Paludis can't be read by Portage. A VDB entry created by Portage can. > It is very important that package managers coexist with portage. This > allows testing of that package manager, but also the testing of a > package / eclass on different package managers. It would be > irrealistic to require devs to have a different installation just for > testing packages with paludis/pkgcore. Who's requiring devs to test anything? > So you are asking to go towards replacing portage with a package > manager that is not under gentoo control? Nowhere are we asking for anything to replace Portage as the primary Gentoo package manager. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list