On Sunday 14 September 2008, David Leverton wrote: > On Sunday 14 September 2008 19:28:28 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > because not everybody wants to install that bloated thing > > Not bloated.
I am sorry: extremly bloated. > > > watch it devour config files > > Lies. oh really? what happens when you forget the 'portage' useflag? Hm? > > > and be insulted by the troll-brigade. > > The only people who get insulted are those who repeatedly and deliberately > spread vicious lies, FUD and personal attacks. oh really? There are enough examples of troll behaviour. Starting with Ciaranm himself. SPB and rbrown are good examples too. > > > Making the 'official' overlay paludis-only was a BIG mistake. > > It's not "paludis-only", it will work with any package manager whose > developers care enough to support the useful features of the kdebuild-1 > EAPI. and that was an official api? Yes? No? Was it needed? No - proven by kdesvn-portage > > > And as kdesvn-portage shows - it was unneeded. > > "Unneeded" is a funny word. You don't "need" ebuilds at all, but that > doesn't mean they're not useful. unneeded is the correct choice of words. That 'special feature that only paludis - and unoffical packet manager developed by a dev team which has a very high 'forcefully retired' content - has' was not needed - as shown by kdesvn-portage. > > Just another little trick by the paludis-group > > The KDE overlay isn't produced by the "paludis-group". no, it was just made by vivid paludis fans. Hey, lets make an overlay a lot of user want - and make it paludis only. That way we can push paludis! > No, to provide ebuilds that make use of useful features that benefit both > users and developers. which one? Which features 'benefit both users and developers' and are sooo important that the kde overlay had to be paludis only? Name them please. Oh, does paludis support and equivalent to 'keep-going' or '--ignore-failures' or are people who wants this extremly usefull features still attacked and insulted?
