Re: [gentoo-osx] On keywording ppc-macos

[Finn Thain]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Kito wrote:

> >I don't think it likely that apple will open source Mac OS X (or
> >eleven, or even system seven). I mean, is it likely that a macos
> >profile could ever be anything but second fiddle?
>
> The progressive profile already is, and getting moreso as it matures.
> fex it can/will be used to merge macos components from Apple
> installation media. So it is in fact handling the compilation of the
> 'bsd' portion of OS X from source as well as managing the proprietary
> libs and tools like CoreAudio, XCode, etc. This way, packages can do
> things like "DEPEND='>=dev-util/xcode2.1
> >=media-sound/coreaudio'" and so on. So used in this manner, portage is
> anything but a second class citizen as everything in / is in fact
> managed by portage.

What I'm saying is that you cannot build Mac OS X, Apple will not permit 
that. If you wan't to install X Code, you have to script apple's installer 
to do it. That is 2nd fiddle.

> Even once prefixed installs are available I intend to continue
> development in this area to facilitate extremely minimal OS X installs
> for specialized applications.

I applaud this. But I think calling that profile "macos" is a misnomer. 
That's why I suggested calling upstream darwin, "ppc-darwin". The fact 
that it isn't called macos doesn't imply macos and macos packages cannot 
be supported on it.

-f

> --Kito
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> > > >I suspect the whole question goes away when portage gets prefixes. So my
> > > >post was probably just noise. Sorry.
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