Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems)

2007-03-27 Thread Charlie Shepherd
On 27/03/07, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please could you reassure us that they can co-exist with portage so that one can be certain that changing to either paludis or pkgcore is not irriversable? Pkgcore can exist just fine alongside portage. -- -Charlie -- gentoo-dev@gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems)

2007-03-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:47:35 -0400 "Stephen Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd advise everybody to try paludis and pkgcore to see how the > > > alternatives are faring, I must say that I'm quite surprised by > > > how fast they are. > > Please could you reassure us that they can co-exist

Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems)

2007-03-27 Thread Luca Barbato
Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Luca Barbato wrote: >> Stuart Longland wrote: >>> Portage itself, does take a long time to load its libraries. I'm yet to >>> try Paludis (I'm one of the few MIPS devs that doesn't use it yet), but >>> do hear good things about it. Perhaps some of

Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems)

2007-03-27 Thread Stephen Becker
> I'd advise everybody to try paludis and pkgcore to see how the > alternatives are faring, I must say that I'm quite surprised by how fast > they are. Please could you reassure us that they can co-exist with portage so that one can be certain that changing to either paludis or pkgcore is not irri

Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems)

2007-03-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Luca Barbato wrote: > Stuart Longland wrote: > > Portage itself, does take a long time to load its libraries. I'm yet to > > try Paludis (I'm one of the few MIPS devs that doesn't use it yet), but > > do hear good things about it. Perhaps some of the concepts used in > > Palu

Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems)

2007-03-27 Thread Luca Barbato
Stuart Longland wrote: > Portage itself, does take a long time to load its libraries. I'm yet to > try Paludis (I'm one of the few MIPS devs that doesn't use it yet), but > do hear good things about it. Perhaps some of the concepts used in > Paludis could be applied in portage, in order to speed

Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems)

2007-03-27 Thread Stuart Longland
George Prowse wrote: > Caleb Cushing wrote: >> how about providing me a list of packages that are masked instead of >> making me read and unmask them one at a time. > That pretty much defeats the object of them being masked in the first place > > So all you can really come up with is speed? If a p