From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K76R2-0001OX-HE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:23:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B7D8E076D; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:22:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ADC9E076D for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:22:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c21so2983827ika.2 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:22:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=LeFgBHGvEpemiVqXrKNJAm4zTcJd9wnaT2ENa2wy1bA=; b=Ya6ac4QzVzWbHCcK2EudSGqUhOyi0k7l9iZCk2DyvUSByUnc3hSWQrC92sDldTZugb CBbGBLBMjuUYBv5BYmvApaHLBMhvKYMKzVSbM/fgshvJIxoQwsZC6HTqPLgc3cynulDJ gMeNAzZ92T9wK1lhNzILiRRF5gamzJZ0woEmQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=iXdYNcaFCd1mT4bhthfSljfDQvUQyCLVB6KsxbCG8ByaJHV/7Kdodt0r+BJPbOCAG5 /47MdKc6X5Y3o/q3qiQUWXI7nnhY1aIeuzpAVkSRJ2C0LhcpbLvzDX7kiePl1LklhUdB B2uVd7HO9V+4qKIGEceFtfKQfuUSw1eM4MF48= Received: by 10.210.109.10 with SMTP id h10mr2332306ebc.170.1213352561764; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiny-one.home ( [81.158.32.93]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i6sm4353364gve.4.2008.06.13.03.22.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:22:40 -0700 (PDT) From: David Leverton To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June] Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:22:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <20080611070618.54E4066E24@smtp.gentoo.org> <20080613105703.51a5ca18@googlemail.com> <8b4c83ad0806130318o451166fard7ca55033f0a8e05@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8b4c83ad0806130318o451166fard7ca55033f0a8e05@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806131122.37988.levertond@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 48963d97-d45d-4089-a5e8-7d4afa9870a2 X-Archives-Hash: 9c9cbb87acfc9eff79e4fb9151253ee8 On Friday 13 June 2008 11:18:53 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > Wait, what? > > "Where possible" ? You'd prefer us to do impossible things too? > PMS is supposed to be a specification which is as close to Gentoo's > Official Package manager's behaviour as possible while (preferably) > leaving out deprecated behaviour. But right now you're saying: > > "We're writing a spec that's somewhat like Portage, but where it > breaks Paludis, we prefer to get Portage to change it's behaviour > instead. Don't crib about this however. We could just have easily have > created a whole new spec which broke Portage completely." > No, we're saying nothing of the sort. Please feel free to browse the history and see where we've changed both Paludis and PMS to match Portage, when we become aware of differences - preferably before posting such nonsense in future. > PS: An example of something in PMS that is different from Portage: > inline comments are disallowed. The only reason I can think for doing > this is to not make Paludis change it's behaviour. Fortunately you don't have to think, you can just read Ciaran's explanation. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list