Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Tristan Ball <Tristan.Ball@×××××××.au>
To: "gentoo-dev@g.o" <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Multiplatform Portage.
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 03:00:16
Message-Id: 3CCA5A8A.1CCA89C8@vsl.com.au
1 Guys, first up, let me say I'm a fan of gentoo, for want of a better
2 word, it tastes good!
3 :-)
4
5 I haven't really had a chance to look at the system closely, I'm payed
6 to babysit some solaris servers, not play with my workstation - which is
7 what brings me to my question:
8
9 How hard would it be to extend the emerge/portage system for other OS's.
10 I'm particularly interested in the idea of being able to do something
11 like an "emerge kde" on a sun box, and have kde and required stuff
12 appear under /opt or /usr/local somewhere.
13
14 Has anyone else considered this?
15
16 Thanks,
17 Tristan.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiplatform Portage. Craig Joly <craig@×××××××××××××××.org>