On Thu, 18 May 2006 15:26:06 +0200 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Then copy the bloody profile, or temporarilly add some magic in > paludis that ignores portage and python deps. Not that hard to do. > While not so beautiful it can easilly be removed at a later stage. And if something really does require python? > How far does that spread? Is this only for packages merged by > paludis, or does it spread? And what reasons are there for paludis > not to have a vdb format that will not confuse portage. A VDB entry created by Paludis can't be read by Portage. A VDB entry created by Portage can. > It is very important that package managers coexist with portage. This > allows testing of that package manager, but also the testing of a > package / eclass on different package managers. It would be > irrealistic to require devs to have a different installation just for > testing packages with paludis/pkgcore. Who's requiring devs to test anything? > So you are asking to go towards replacing portage with a package > manager that is not under gentoo control? Nowhere are we asking for anything to replace Portage as the primary Gentoo package manager. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
