On Tue, 16 May 2006 21:56:10 +0100 Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > Adding a new profile doesn't affect Portage unless Portage is told
| > to use that profile. And anyone telling Portage to use *any* invalid
| > profile is going to be in for a shock.
| 
| I was more thinking along the lines of that there might be a lot of 
| confusion if Paludis and Portage have varying feature sets, and do
| not maintain total ebuild compatibility both ways. We all know how
| keen our users are to try new stuff...

A large part of why Paludis exists is because I and several others were
sick of waiting for three years for Portage to provide certain basic
features.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail            : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk


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