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 1Fgnr9-000463-8q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 May 2006 19:08:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4IJ8BdL014737; Thu, 18 May 2006 19:08:11 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 k4IJ4xB4032318 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 19:04:59 GMT Received: from [172.23.170.139] (helo=anti-virus01-10) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fgnnv-00049k-My for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 May 2006 20:04:59 +0100 Received: from [213.121.151.206] (helo=snowdrop.home) by asmtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1Fgnnu-00039a-7u for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 May 2006 20:04:58 +0100 Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 20:04:36 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Message-ID: <20060518200436.29d07d58@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20060518185116.GA3858@nightcrawler> References: <20060516161549.442b4d8a@localhost> <20060518171416.GA7033@superlupo.rechner> <20060518190210.683a05f6@snowdrop.home> <200605182020.43640.carlo@gentoo.org> <20060518193416.5d75904d@snowdrop.home> <20060518185116.GA3858@nightcrawler> 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: 3715e757-4e37-4df8-8a5f-74d060440aef X-Archives-Hash: 557a1a1e773fecc72b77f51d0b989873 On Thu, 18 May 2006 11:51:16 -0700 Brian Harring wrote: | On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 07:34:16PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Thu, 18 May 2006 20:20:29 +0200 Carsten Lohrke | > wrote: | > | On Thursday 18 May 2006 20:02, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > | >It's kinda like this: | > | | > | Stop making such odd and wrong comparisons. The package manager is | > | part of what defines a distribution, choosing a shell is the users | > | choice. If you want to make the package manager matter of choice, | > | start your own distribution. | > | > How many package managers does Debian have? What about Fedora? | | They all support the exact same format. | | You're changing the format, dropping what you dislike- they also | support the same installed pkgs backend last I looked, again, not the | case for paludis. No, they have a common subset of shared operations, just as Paludis and Portage do. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list