On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:41:47 +0200 Michael Krelin wrote: > > It depends upon the degree to which one specifies 'sendmail > > compatibility'. Does it mean "shares some of the same commandline > > options" or "shares exactly the same configuration file format and > > all bugs and produces identical output"? > > I think Mike mentioned compatiblebinaries. Not sure if he implied > identical output, but compatible command line would be nice. I don't > think it's a huge obstacle for paludis, though. If it's just an issue of command line, then it's not an issue at all. Even configuration support isn't a major problem (Paludis trunk has highly experimental and highly buggy partial Portage config reading support). The question is whether scripts that, say, parse emerge -pv output have to carry on working. -- Ciaran McCreesh