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On 04/24/2012 05:48 AM, Daniel Ibn Zayd wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:46:31 -0700, walt wrote: |
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>>> It appears that you are installing gentoo as a virtual machine to |
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>>> be run from inside of Darwin, is that how it works? |
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> Yes, more like its own shell/compiler environment. I tried both fink |
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> and macports to deal with packages on some old Macs; the problem with |
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> fink (which I had no real problem with otherwise) is that it wasn't |
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> obvious how to keep packages separate from the System stuff (like the |
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> System Perl), so I had a nightmare dealing with a different Perl |
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> version, plus CPAN, plus fink, and they didn't want to get along so |
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> well; macports did crazy stuff like make itself owner of apps and |
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> member of groups; again, a serious problem with boundaries. Gentoo |
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> took a while to get installed, but I'm really happy that everything |
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> is living in its own space....it comes with its own shell and basic |
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> apps and Perl and and and....so I don't have to worry that I'm going |
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> to mess up my basic OSX system. |
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Sounds like you understand the problems better than I do. Assuming |
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you have a newer Intel-based machine, *I* would say install gentoo as |
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the host OS and run OSX as a VirtualBox guest. I might even be able to |
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help you do it that way ;) |
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