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On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 06:24:46PM -0400, Nick Dimiduk wrote: |
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> To re-direct you one more time, maybe have a look over at the |
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> gentoo-portage-dev list. That's where portage development happens. We |
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> just use it. :) |
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> |
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> We are in the process of making gentoo's portage work on osx as a |
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> secondary package manager (as you put it earlier). We ideally use / as |
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> the root. Much of what we've push into portage mainline (as bug |
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> reports) has to do with using POSIX versions of tools rather than the |
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> gnu versions. This has to do with portage code as well as ebuilds |
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> themselves. the gentoo/bsd group also does this with their work. Both |
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> of our projects are focused on getting portage running on non-linux |
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> systems. There was talk of gentoo/open solaris as well. |
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> |
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> I don't think I fully understand what you're looking for, but I hope you |
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> find it :) |
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openpkg is capable of prefix swiveling, what y'all are after- also is |
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what he's after. |
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~harring |
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