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 1Fgndl-0006gZ-N5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 May 2006 18:54:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4IIqefn009355; Thu, 18 May 2006 18:52:40 GMT Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.8]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4IIgwhf020299 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 18:42:58 GMT Received: from [172.23.170.139] (helo=anti-virus01-10) by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FgnSc-0003Zy-5j for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 May 2006 19:42:58 +0100 Received: from [213.121.151.206] (helo=snowdrop.home) by asmtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1FgnSb-00036n-KJ for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 May 2006 19:42:57 +0100 Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 19:42:36 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Message-ID: <20060518194236.5ac9dfe6@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200605182033.05484.pauldv@gentoo.org> References: <1147877875.16876.21.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <200605181948.01843.pauldv@gentoo.org> <20060518190318.72b2c874@snowdrop.home> <200605182033.05484.pauldv@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: 83f53cfd-cd3b-4fad-8a85-7412a619f110 X-Archives-Hash: 0ad1bf515dfcbc1b766c472eaa43e535 On Thu, 18 May 2006 20:33:05 +0200 Paul de Vrieze wrote: | > There is no such thing as a primary package manager and using such a | > term only serves to distract from what could otherwise be productive | > discussion. | | Why so. Portage is the one and only (thus primary) package manager | for the gentoo tree. It is by itself responsible for the database of | installed packages. This responsibility can only be held by one | package manager at the time as multiple databases would create | conflicts and / or missing information. That means at a system there | is a primary package manager. Circular argument. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list