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On Sunday, September 25, 2011 08:53:08 Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> However, I can't seem to find a chromeos-meta package in portage, and |
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> the fact that my chromeos laptop has some feature does me little good |
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> in getting my Gentoo desktop to do the same. At best ChromeOS is a |
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> fork of Gentoo, and the work that is done to highly integrate it |
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> doesn't really trickle back upstream. To be honest, I'm not sure it |
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> would be easy for them to do so. |
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Chrome OS uses the Gentoo tree of ebuilds and an overlay of custom packages. |
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there are also a number of patches to packages that are in our tree, but those |
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are in the process of merging back into Gentoo mainline. |
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i wouldn't really clasify this as a fork ... it's more a derivative. |
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-mike |