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On Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:44:20 Kfir Lavi wrote: |
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> What was the aim of creating portage-utils? |
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goals: |
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- small |
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- fast |
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- little to no dependencies |
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- should require only modern C compiler & library |
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- support binary packages |
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- fully compatible with official Gentoo PM (i.e. portage |
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- have fun |
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basically we deem python and friends to be way too heavy for embedded systems |
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where most of the time you just want to install/update binary packages. there |
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is no desire at all to have portage-utils build packages from source. |
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-mike |
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