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I'm not sure I understood your questions correctly, because you are basically describing the prefix project and calling it "a new idea" ? |
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On 17 août 2010, at 23:11, Elmar Hinz wrote: |
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> youtoo, short u2, does what it says. It brings gentoo to everybody, to |
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> the windows user, to the mac user, ... did I forget someone, well |
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> certainly also to un*x users. |
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Yeah, that's basically the description of gentoo-prefix. |
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Let me quote the first line of the prefix webpage: An effort to bring the virtues of Gentoo Linux to users on different operating systems, by means of installing in a "prefix". |
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> youtoo --prefix /home/user/gentoo/ --target gedit |
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> That would compile gedit into the given directory, with all required |
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> dependencies. |
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Replace youtoo by emerge, and it's gentoo-prefix. |
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> Everybody could run gentoo programs with user rights on any platform, |
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> always from the latests sources. |
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This is actually what gentoo-prefix does. |
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> Is that realistic? |
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Yes. |
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> Has somebody done it already? |
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Us ? |
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> Where are the pitfalls? |
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bugs.gentoo.org, search for gentoo/alt prefix. |
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> How big do you estimate the timely requirements to get a prove of concept? |
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A couple hours max, following the bootstrap guide, depending on your hardware. |
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Florian. |
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