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Hi,
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We have merged RAP back to Prefix and it becomes the default for Prefix
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on Linux-based systems. I have drafted an announcement to
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gentoo-dev-announce. Please comment on the text.
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Thanks!
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Benda
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<---
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The Gentoo Prefix team is pleased to announce a major update: RAP[0],
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the libc variant of Prefix (aka. linux-standalone) becomes the default
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for Linux-based systems.
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This update improves the compatibility and stability of Gentoo Prefix on
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Linux-based systems. The visible changes are:
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- Gentoo Prefix uses the same repository and the same keywords as
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Gentoo vanilla. By default, a package should just work on Prefix,
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otherwise it is a bug to be fixed.
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- Glibc is installed from Gentoo repository into Prefix, screening
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out bugs or obsoleteness of host libc.
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Gentoo Prefix is for bringing out the virtues of Gentoo on different
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operating systems, the Gentoo Prefix project develops and maintains a
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way of installing Gentoo systems in a non-standard location, designated
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by a "prefix". Portage serves as a secondary package manager in
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parallel to that of the host. At present, Gentoo Prefix works on all
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the Linux distributions tested by the community[1].
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This noval approach of Prefix has been initiated by Ruud (redlizard)
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Koolen and Benda (heroxbd) Xu since 2012, and was mentored by Luca
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(lu_zero) Barbato during Google Summer of Code 2013[2]. We would like
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to thank our fellow developers for their support and input, as well as
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our testers, including but not limited to xdej, scateu, yangsheng6810,
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prefixer, R0b0t1, lightbringer, yegle, nanikata, Steven Trogdon, Marko
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Vendelin, Martin Mokrejš and François Bissey.
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To find out more and get started, please visit
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix
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Cheers,
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Benda on behalf of Gentoo Prefix team
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0. RAP:= Rap Ain't Prefix
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1. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/tested
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2. https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2013/heroxbd/5659014549471232 |