Re: [gentoo-osx] Current status

[P.A.A.]

Dear Friends,

Gentoo on OSX totally rocks :)  As one who has extensively used both DP 
& F, and who has [through unusual & controversial means] hack-ported 
Imendio's Planner to Darwin (see the Fink & Imendio mailing lists for 
great controversy), it seems to me that Gentoo is the Way ... I'm 
planning, in humility, to offer to help in the emerging :)  (will email 
you soon, Hasan Khalil), ... to integrate linux with OSX is like a 
dream :)

Cheers,
Patrick

Alessandra & Assoc. Intl.
Dallas * Ft. Worth, Texas  U.S.A.
[phone]
http://homepage.mac.com/adijedi/


On Jul 31, 2005, at 12:41 AM, Hasan Khalil wrote:

>
> On Jul 31, 2005, at 24:28, Kito wrote:
>
>> On Jul 31, 2005, at 12:05 AM, Hasan Khalil wrote:
>>
>>> Seriously, though, I wouldn't say that installing/using Gentoo for
>>> Mac OS X would void any support requests. All of your points stand,
>>> but I just think that your 'semantics' are a bit harder than the
>>> reality. :)
>>
>> Tell an apple support rep you have installed custom software in
>> /System and /usr and let me know the response ;) hint: have your OS X
>> install media handy
>
> Been there, done that. They didn't say anything about having to
> reinstall. To tell the truth, they treated me better once they knew I
> wasn't another Dumb User(tm). Only done it once, though, so I may have
> just been lucky. Please share any relevant personal experiences you
> have.
>
>> As a side note...I've been poking around the portage cvs, and its
>> very repo agnostic...do you think the fink and DP folks will get
>> upset when we start emerging fink and DP ports? ;)
>
> Not sure I understood you correctly. Do you mean to say that we'd be
> able to use fink and DP repos and have portage understand them?
> Obviously, using their repos would be pretty useless for the most
> part, but it'd still be an interesting exercise in abuse of portage
> features.
>
> --
>
> Hasan Khalil
> eBuild and Porting Co-Lead
> Gentoo for Mac OS X
>