>>> It depends upon the degree to which one specifies 'sendmail >>> compatibility'. Does it mean "shares some of the same commandline >>> options" or "shares exactly the same configuration file format and >>> all bugs and produces identical output"? >> I think Mike mentioned compatiblebinaries. Not sure if he implied >> identical output, but compatible command line would be nice. I don't >> think it's a huge obstacle for paludis, though. > > If it's just an issue of command line, then it's not an issue at all. > Even configuration support isn't a major problem (Paludis trunk has > highly experimental and highly buggy partial Portage config reading > support). The question is whether scripts that, say, parse emerge -pv > output have to carry on working.
I think this requirement would put portage itself in quite uncomfortable situation. Love, H -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
