On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:03, Stephen Bennett wrote: > On Thu, 18 May 2006 15:34:28 +0200 > > Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Requiring duplication of profiles for every package manager. > > It requires duplicating nothing. This is exactly why we have cascading > profiles.
Cascading profiles form a tree with N nodes. Some of these nodes are abstract in the sense that they are not directly usable. Say that leaves M possible profiles. To have paludis be on par with portage, each of these M profiles would have a leaf added for paludis. The same holds for pkgcore and for any other package manager. This would mean that we have N+2M profiles. With a paludis and pkgcore toplevel profile this would even be worse and amount to approximately 3N profiles. In the leaf version, all M paludis specific profiles are equal. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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