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 1K76T2-0001VB-Cm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:25:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 116DAE0781; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:23:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72B8E0781 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:23:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z27so58483ugc.49 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:23:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=jgam0o56X9GTkLtNUm4ronaFykc2EcX8WGEPY4G1MKA=; b=pt3bI/oeZd05KGaUcoIJBNBVHNOUimX2VMs6V+0S9l/TzxfXcxyETTKEMNnJKmhv7s eAgZAdHXgJIhj4L/+OFL79ejmpRipo5w+8hH+yTm5e1IJY1Y3Y0QWxbpHGCBAKoqtgT6 4V3DMI/z8Rkyfe7mN4IUzV8hLyXk4HNtDh6I8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=YBaQI38aUazrUeFnqp7L+eNVNOw/TcF7qb2pkKUkaOTJuUhI7xG9KftvHSN3wWEJ5t FXlwV8bFMFyjbBmVMsCk048m8IWUzFnGa9Q82jWIevxUHMqfJmMWi0wLjtpXe/KoBF1f qB853r6GOI33tsBEz7H9exsjoGPQmKMBTUNOY= Received: by 10.66.216.7 with SMTP id o7mr755660ugg.69.1213352629835; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:23:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ( [213.121.151.206]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e33sm1082960ugd.47.2008.06.13.03.23.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:23:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:23:41 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June] Message-ID: <20080613112341.4c7065d3@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <8b4c83ad0806130318o451166fard7ca55033f0a8e05@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080611070618.54E4066E24@smtp.gentoo.org> <75f3dce80806121813y5d417574kb7283c285e296562@mail.gmail.com> <20080613062612.46931b33@googlemail.com> <4852375F.7010201@dev.gentooexperimental.org> <7DB0FAE7-6F92-43D5-BB33-0048403A0281@gentoo.org> <48523AEF.2020608@dev.gentooexperimental.org> <20080613102240.4ba5d144@googlemail.com> <4852437E.1090809@dev.gentooexperimental.org> <20080613105703.51a5ca18@googlemail.com> <8b4c83ad0806130318o451166fard7ca55033f0a8e05@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/1wzQWWiTlfD9_7f3BW2pFBF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: fb1f462a-522f-4444-96ed-471a9964921e X-Archives-Hash: 38e15ccf0ba0b9b285c838298d68d923 --Sig_/1wzQWWiTlfD9_7f3BW2pFBF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:48:53 +0530 "Nirbheek Chauhan" wrote: > 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: >=20 > "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." >=20 > I hope everyone realises just how ridiculous this is. No, we're saying: "There are some things that Portage does that're so obviously weird or wrong that it's impossible to document that behaviour in a standard, so occasionally we'll have to consider Portage to have bugs." > 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. Did you check whether Portage that's included in current Gentoo releases supports inline comments in profiles? --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/1wzQWWiTlfD9_7f3BW2pFBF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhSSrAACgkQ96zL6DUtXhF08QCfZc8Qw5q7cd66h2I6+TUgJcDJ HXMAn0iNXPA7havY1NM42BI3Obstt0vz =R7JK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/1wzQWWiTlfD9_7f3BW2pFBF-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list