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On Saturday, December 3, 2016 11:27:20 AM EST Brian Dolbec wrote: |
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> I think you will find that ChromeOS is not really based on Gentoo, but |
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> built using Gentoo as the base os it IS built from. It is still Linux |
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> based, but ChromeOS doe not use ebuilds and such for normal |
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> operations. But the binary pkgs that build it are custom built using |
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> Gentoo's ebuild system and modified package management systems. |
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All that sounds like it is based on Gentoo. Its packages before they turn them |
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into binaries are ebuilds. |
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> The |
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> final resulting OS has it's own methods of updating itself and |
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> installing the binaries. (At least that is the way it was some years |
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> ago, last I had looked) |
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Yes, but if you want to modify any binaries etc, you are back to ebuilds. If |
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you want to add a new package not available its the same thing. They use |
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overlay concepts etc. |
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I do get ChromeOS is very different, kinda like Android, you must flash images |
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you build. No installing it in the normal sense. |
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No matter what terms you use, Google uses Gentoo to build products it makes |
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money off. In that sense I think it could give back allot. If not in |
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donations, resources (tinderbox), etc. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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