On Wednesday 17 May 2006 10:23, Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:16:32PM +0200, Wernfried Haas wrote: > > This is not only about adding a profile, but if paludis is officially > > supported by being in the tree and profiles, fixes for paludis get > > into the tree etc, this sounds like paludis is a Gentoo project and users > > will expect it to work and be supported. They will be allowed to ask > > questions about something not working with paludis on the forums, > > mailing lists, on irc etc without being off-topic. > > So far and with respect to other distributions (like e.g. Vida, > > Kororaa or whatever they were called) a rule of thumb was: > > A Gentoo system uses the official portage tree, was installed using > > the Gentoo installation guide using Gentoo stages, etc - and which was > > rather implicit - using portage as package manager. As far i > > understand it paludis differs from that in many ways. > > So before the package manager gets optional and we support something > > quite different we really should figure out what we consider a Gentoo > > installation.
I see no difference between this and other external projects which have an impact on the tree, like say gcc. If a gentoo dev puts an alpha of gcc in and it's package masked and stuff, then I expect devs that put Paludis in the tree to provide a similar level of support. I will happily provide support for baselayout and what I put it in the tree, but I'll provide exactly the same level of support for Paludis as I do for Portage - nothing. > > Does the lack of responses mean everyone agrees to my point? We really > should figure that stuff out before we start integrating an externally > written package manager we have no influence on whatsoever - otherwise > it would just be fair to do everything any other Gentoo based > distribution demands from us as well. Tell you what, you figure out the internals of baselayout or we'll remove it from the tree. I think a few Gentoo dev's know Paludis internals enough to support it. -- Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking) -- [email protected] mailing list
