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I've recently got gentoo running on my xbox (for a summary see |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45100). There are ebuilds for kernel, |
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boot loader, lirc drivers, alsa-drivers, flashing the onboard rom, and |
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building bootable CDs, and essential stuff like freevo and pydance have been |
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tested :) |
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The submission has been marked WONTFIX with the comment that gentoox is the |
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place for gentoo on the xbox, although the comment "It would take a lot of |
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hacking to get gentoox to use portage" clearly indicates that gentoox is not |
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gentoo. Gentoox is a distribution built using gentoo, it includes some |
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non-gentoo features (downloading prebuilt binaries (no source offered), |
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overwriting config files), some things that are securitywise a bad idea |
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(downloading shell scripts from web sites and executing them as root), and a |
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package management system that runs parallel to portage but doesn't interact |
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with it, so you end up with two systems overwriting each others files, which |
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leads to installation chaos. |
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I'd like to see support for real gentoo on the xbox in portage. If anyone else |
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is interested all of the ebuilds are currently sitting on bugs.gentoo.org. |
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