On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:49:38 +0200 Thomas Rösner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A package manager that supports a better binary package format > > (split out local metadata would be a good start) combined with a > > third party binary provider could deliver that with no tree changes. > > But then you'd need a tree of binary packages, which you'd only get > with many users of your package manager, which would depend on > official Gentoo adoption
The sort of people who are likely to go ahead and make a decent binary tree are the sort who don't particularly care whether a package manager is officially supported, so long as it does the job well. > I think you know that and that's why you did work on PMS PMS doesn't say anything about binary packages, for one... > Hm, perhaps you should let somebody else do the PR for paludis? :-) This has nothing to do with PR. It's to do with whether or not Gentoo has a viable future. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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