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From: Finn Thain <fthain@××××××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-osx@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-osx] Current status
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:29:38
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.63.0507311623020.4292@loopy.telegraphics.com.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-osx] Current status by Kito
1 On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Kito wrote:
2
3 >
4 > On Jul 30, 2005, at 8:12 PM, Hasan Khalil wrote:
5 >
6 > >As of yet, portage is not suited for what we have now termed 'pathspec', or
7 > >'installing to an alternate prefix', or 'using portage as a secondary package
8 > >manager', etc. Changes are being made to portage that will allow for features
9 > >like this, and should be included in the next major release (some months away
10 > >still).
11 > >
12 >
13 [snip]
14
15 > The main problem as I see it, is you have a live tree of some
16 > ~10,000 linux based packages, with a userbase of >100,000 LINUX users, a
17 > dev team of >350 linux developers...how on earth do you convince these
18 > linux users and devs that a massively huge project like supporting
19 > arbitrary install prefixes is worth the trouble, especially when it
20 > would mostly benefit a sideproject with 3 devs and probably only slighty
21 > more users?
22
23 Remember that for some of us, it doesn't matter if no more than a tiny
24 fraction of ebuilds work. One should not confuse Gentoo (i.e. the portage
25 tree) with Portage itself. Non-Gentoo developers, distros and O/S's can
26 benefit from a portable portage, even if it comes with an empty portage
27 tree. By "portable portage", I mean that it would support new ebuilds that
28 will play nicely on arbitrary host.
29
30 But the question remains, how to bring the existing ebuilds along for the
31 ride? Kito is right that most linux devs aren't going to care too much.
32 Most of them are not in a position to test their ebuilds on half a dozen
33 different platforms. But then, they don't all test on half a dozen
34 different linux architectures anyway.
35
36 Hasan, you mentioned pathspec and prefixed installs, and future portage
37 features to accomodate these. Is there more information available anywhere
38 on the portage roadmap and the particular future portage features you are
39 referring to?
40
41 -f
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Re: [gentoo-osx] Current status Philipp Riegger <lists@××××××××××××.de>
also ddd Re: [gentoo-osx] Current status "P. A. A." <adijedi@×××××.com>