On Thu, 18 May 2006 09:19:58 +0200 Jochen Maes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 1) If Paludis has no business in replacing portage on systems (shame, | if it's better/faster it should) why are we having this discussion.
It's a goal towards which we're working. Just as we expect that, for example, gcc 4 will someday replace gcc 3 on some archs. | I understand that you need a profile and with an overlay you need to | copy the profiles dir (the whole profiles dir) but be serious that's | only So my question would you be able to do tests without changing | the official tree by copying the profiles dir in an own overlay. That's how things are done at present. | 2) If Paludis will be installed on a system to test, and installs | packages, will portage be aware of that installation, and will it be | able to remove it (meaning Paludis changes the portage VDB correctly | when needed). (i've seen you explain that Paludis can read it but not | that it can write it correctly) It's not that Paludis doesn't write it correctly. It's that Paludis writes some extra information that Portage can't handle. | 3) If using an own binary format will there be an extracter for it | that isn't part of Paludis? Why am i asking this? Well i've seen | instances when an upgrade broke something, and that was a dep of | portage. So my emerge couldn't revert back. So i just untarred the | tarball and recompiled it. (might not be the cleanest way, but the | only way i found in certain situations). tar. | 4) Will Paludis ever become a Gentoo Project? Pretty unlikely, past events considered. Personally I kind of like having commit access to my own code... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- [email protected] mailing list
