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I've been working with Gentoo Prefix/Portage on a Mac Powerbook G4 for the |
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past few weeks, and other than a few minor glitches easily rectified, I'm |
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extremely happy with the way it works and works well. |
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I do have a few minor questions concerning the appearance of updates to |
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ebuilds, as well as how gentoo determines what is available to my |
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system/what needs upgrading.... |
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1) I installed portage according to the bootstrap instructions, setting |
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binutils-apple to version 3.2 (now 3.2.6) according to my version of |
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XCode. Nonetheless, doing a world update pretend run always gives me this: |
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[ebuild NS ] sys-devel/binutils-apple-4.2 [3.2.6] USE="-lto -test" |
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4.2 won't install as it is not compatible (if I understand correctly from |
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the bootstrap instructions); and 3.2.6 is installed with flags "one-shot" |
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and "no-deps".... |
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Is there a way to tell Portage not to attempt to upgrade here? |
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2) I've posted in the Multimedia item on the forums board about a certain |
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problem I had with Pango, a known issue that is fixed with pango-1.29.5. I |
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have read up on making my own overlays, but I'm wondering if there is a |
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way to request an addition to the tree, or expedite such an addition? I'd |
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rather for now rely on Portage than to get into my own interventions here. |
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3) This brings me to the next question, which is: Geany for Mac OSX is |
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available in other package managers, but is completely missing from the |
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Gentoo tree; --search brings up nothing at all. I imagine I can install |
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it, but I'm wondering first whether again it is possible to request that |
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it be added to the Gentoo tree? |
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Thanks for any and all assistance! |