Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [Tue May 16 2006, 01:07:05PM CDT] > | Bluntly, you break compatibility with vdb/tree, paludis has no real > | future with gentoo beyond forking- requiring 100,000 users to > | reinstall because you don't want to do backwards compatibility is > | daft. > > A reinstall isn't needed at all.
Just to clarify my own poor understanding, if somebody builds a box using paludis and then decides that she'd really prefer to use portage instead, isn't that going to require a reinstall (at least until there's a program that takes a paludis installed-package database and can generate the equivalent portage db)? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76
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