On Friday 13 June 2008 11:18:53 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > Wait, what? > > "Where possible" ?
You'd prefer us to do impossible things too? > PMS is supposed to be a specification which is as close to Gentoo's > Official Package manager's behaviour as possible while (preferably) > leaving out deprecated behaviour. But right now you're saying: > > "We're writing a spec that's somewhat like Portage, but where it > breaks Paludis, we prefer to get Portage to change it's behaviour > instead. Don't crib about this however. We could just have easily have > created a whole new spec which broke Portage completely." > No, we're saying nothing of the sort. Please feel free to browse the history and see where we've changed both Paludis and PMS to match Portage, when we become aware of differences - preferably before posting such nonsense in future. > PS: An example of something in PMS that is different from Portage: > inline comments are disallowed. The only reason I can think for doing > this is to not make Paludis change it's behaviour. Fortunately you don't have to think, you can just read Ciaran's explanation. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
