On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 19:50 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | #1. Can paludis work with catalyst? > > No. Nor will it ever, nor will it need to.
To be used for building a Gentoo release, yes it will. > > | #2. Can paludis build all of the release materials required by the > | Release Engineering release guidelines? > > No. Nor will it ever, nor will it need to. To be used for building a Gentoo release, yes it will. > > | #3. Can paludis build a portage-compatible VDB that can be used by the > | Gentoo Linux Installer? > > No. Nor will it ever, nor will it need to. To be used for building a Gentoo release, yes it will. > Your claim, specifically, was "It *is* essential if paludis were to > ever be used for release building.". There is more than one way to skin > a cat, and some of those ways don't involve getting blood all over the > floor. Sure, there's more than one way to build a release. However, there's only *one* way to build an official Gentoo release. It sounds like Paludis falls short on this 100%. My recommendation, as Release Engineering Strategic Lead, is that no profiles be added to the tree, nor any modifications be made to any current profile, including base or the profiles directory, until such time that Paludis is actually a usable package manager for building a Gentoo release. I also recommend that the package is masked in all Gentoo profiles where a release is built against, since again, it is 100% incompatible and upstream has now said that they have no intentions on making it compatible. As I see it, the original question posed to this list is now a non-issue. It will *never* be portage compatible enough, according to the lead developer, to ever be usable as a portage replacement or alternative. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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