On Thu, 18 May 2006 12:41:47 -0700 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Please talk to the OSX folk- they would disagree, since | collision-protect was added to keep gentoo-osx from stomping on the | primary installation (iow, to keep the secondary from acting like it | was primary). Since you also spent a lot of time 'contributing' to | prefix, I'd expect you'd understand the primary vs secondary role | also (same with since you've ranted at autopackage).
Except that by that definition, Paludis *is* a primary package manager. | What he is driving it at is that either paludis is an alternative | (yet on disk compatible) primary, or it's a secondary- you keep | debating the compatibility angle, thus the logical conclussion is | that it's a secondary. We're an alternative, not entirely on disc compatible primary. | Re: vdb, the virtuals hack you've slipped in is paludis choice- you | design your manager properly, the vdb backend can be swapped out. In | other words, collect virtuals on the fly (ala portage/preexisting vdb | compatible), or convert that backend to a format that has the | virtuals flattened. | | Bluntly, if I can do it in pkgcore, you ought to be able to do it in | paludis. Design choice. We chose not to continue with previous design mistakes that exist only because of limitations in Portage's dep resolver where we can do so without requiring ebuild changes. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
