Re: [gentoo-alt] Purpose of Gentoo Prefix [clarifications]

[Jeremy Olexa]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Narendra Prasad Madanapalli
<narendramind@×××××.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently using prefix portage and still need some clarifications on
> the following
>
> Why do we need Prefix Portage insted of the combination of chroot+portage?
> For example,
>     * set up chroot environment in /opt/myprefix
>     * chroot /opt/myprefix
>     * Install all necessary packages based on normal-portage inside it.
>
> Even though prefix-portage based s/w can be installed as normal user, admin
> previleges are required to start/stop servers inside the s/w. In this case
> chroot+normal portage is enough than prefix.
> And more over, chroot+normal-poragate can be used inside any directory of
> user choice.

No, that is incorrect, you need root access to use chroot. Assuming
you have root access, yea, a chroot might suit your needs better.

Additionally, please see some documented use cases already:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/usecases.xml

-Jeremy

>
> Can anybody please provide appropriate answers for the above so that I will
> be cleared and proceed with proper portage.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Narendra.
>