On Wednesday 17 May 2006 02:42, Stephen Bennett wrote: > > paludis/packages: > -*>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.22 > *sys-apps/paludis
Is there any reason that portage and paludis can not live together. As this basically blocks any kind of migration or backwards compatibility I see this as a very serious roadblock to the acceptance of paludis as a supported (secondary) package manager. > The deprecated notice should address the concerns of those worried > about people switching a Portage system to use one of these profiles, > as it would then spit out a hard-to-miss notice upon attempting to do > anything. Additionally, at present anyone using the sub-profiles with > Portage would get a profile identical to the default-linux ones, due to > Portage only considering the first line in parent. With the contents of this profile I see no reason whatsoever to include it in the tree. Paludis itself could easilly maintain a blocker on portage. The rest is so boilerplate that it has no added benefit of having paludis use the normal profiles. Using the normal profiles would also establish paludis as a possible replacement of portage as primary package manager. Refraining from doing so disqualifies paludis from becoming a replacement for portage. As the only point in adding a secondary package manager is the possible replacement of the current primary package manager, I see no point to make any paludis directed changes to the tree. Paludis at this point is just a third party package manager, comparable to rpm, and should be treated as such. Paludis could become a secondary package manager (waranting limited tree changes) when it has proved stability and has taken away all limits that prevent it from replacing portage at some point. If paludis does not aim at replacing portage, including an easy upgrade path and long testing, I see no point in using any gentoo resources in its support. This includes the pointlessness of making profile changes. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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