On Monday 27 August 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Monday 27 August 2007 10:58:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > If I switch to paludis, is it relatively[1] easy to revert back to > > portage in the event of $UNKNOWN_REASON? (I'm really just looking > > for a yes or no here) > > [SNIP] > > > [1] 'relative' is a relative term :-) If it's a similar order of > > magnitude as say the expat, xorg7 and gcc3.3 -> 3.4 scenarios or > > mistakenly emerging busybox to / without symlinks on a production > > machine (yes, I did do that....), then I'm happy to throw caution > > to the winds and deal with whatever happens/keep 2 broken pieces > > Heh. You can always enable portage_compatible if you want (see the > configuration guide). The only real issue is keeping your Paludis and > Portage configurations synchronized (unless you use the portage > environment with Paludis)... So I'd definitely say, yes.
Magic, maybe now that emerge spinner will take itself out of my life :-) /me goes looking for a few spare hours in the calendar... alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
