Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

[Jochen Maes <sejo@gentoo.org>]

** Dumb mode **  forgot to paste the exact size of the profiles dir in 
my previous mail... woops :-)

First of all, keep up the work with Paludis.
Personally I think having a second package manager is a very good thing.
I do have some questions. Could someone of the Paludis crew please 
answer them?

1) If Paludis has no business in replacing portage on systems (shame, if 
it's better/faster it should) why are we having this discussion.
I understand that you need a profile and with an overlay you need to 
copy the profiles dir (the whole profiles dir) but be serious that's 
only 7.4 M
So my question would you be able to do tests without changing the 
official tree by copying the profiles dir in an own overlay.

2) If Paludis will be installed on a system to test, and installs 
packages, will portage be aware of that installation, and will it be 
able to remove it (meaning Paludis changes the portage VDB correctly 
when needed). (i've seen you explain that Paludis can read it but not 
that it can write it correctly)

3) If using an own binary format will there be an extracter for it that 
isn't part of Paludis? Why am i asking this? Well i've seen instances 
when an upgrade broke something, and that was a dep of portage. So my 
emerge couldn't revert back. So i just untarred the tarball and 
recompiled it. (might not be the cleanest way, but the only way i found 
in certain situations).

4) Will Paludis ever become a Gentoo Project?


Thank you very much for the hard work!

Jochen

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"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends"
"Ne humanus crede"

Jochen Maes
Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Belgium
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