Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis version 0.6.0

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>]

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Christel Dahlskjaer wrote:
> Hiya all, 
> 
> Just a quick note to let you know that the Paludis guys are happy to
> inform you that they've just released version 0.6.0 of Paludis, the most
> popular and widely used alternative to Portage. With this release
> they're finally more or less VDB compatible with Portage, so switching
> to and from Paludis is considerably more likely to work.
> 
> Paludis works with the normal ebuild tree, and can be expected to work
> with most ebuilds that aren't webapps. As demonstrated by it not being
> called "1.0", there are still bugs, missing features and general
> oddities; thus Paludis is not suitable for production systems, and if
> you care more about your data they encourage you to still use Debian.
> However, Paludis is now more or less usable for atleast some people, and
> it would be nice to get more testing from people who know what they are
> doing.
> 
> More information can be found at http://paludis.berlios.de/ . In
> particular, the
> "Known Issues" and "Portage Differences" links may be of interest. There's also
> a #paludis IRC channel on Freenode.
>  
> Ebuilds are in the main tree as sys-apps/paludis. Gentoo's bugzilla should *NOT*
> be used for Paludis related issues, except for any bugs with the Paludis ebuild
> itself. 
> 
> As it no longer will rape your dog, I suggest you check it out. 
> 
> With love, 
> Christelxx.
> 
> 

My dog has long since been a fan of Paludis version. I will sadly have
to break the news to my dog.

-- 
Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>
http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/


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