On Thursday 18 May 2006 13:24, Dan Meltzer wrote: > On 5/18/06, Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The package sys-apps/paludis is in the wrong category. It is a > > package manager on par with rpm, dpkg, etc. Those live in app-arch. > > > > Therefore I propose to move the paludis package to app-arch. > > > > It is not a system package at all. It does not even cooperate with > > system. > > > > Paul > > " <longdescription lang="en"> > The app-arch category contains tools for archiving, compressing > and uncompressing files or groups of files. > </longdescription>" > > paladius does just as much archiving, compressing, and uncompressing > as portage... actually less without binpkg support. Maybe it's not a > sys-app, but it sure isn't an archive app.
It does it as much as rpm and dpkg do. As I don't think it is a good idea to create a app-pkgmanager group I think it is best to put it with the other package managers in the tree. In any case it does not belong in sys-. It is not comparable with portage as it is an unsupported, third-party, package manager. Worst of all, conflicts with the official package manager. As anything in sys- is system and as such core to the distribution, I think that anything which does not cooperate with system, but even conflicts with it does not belong there. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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