[gentoo-dev-announce] Gentoo Prefix updates on Linux

[Benda Xu]

The Gentoo Prefix team is pleased to announce a major update: RAP[1],

the libc variant of Prefix (aka. linux-standalone) becomes the default

for Linux-based systems.



This update improves the compatibility and stability of Gentoo Prefix on

Linux-based systems.  The visible changes are:



  - Gentoo Prefix uses the same repository and the same keywords as

    Gentoo vanilla.  By default, a package should just work on Prefix,

    otherwise it is a bug to be fixed.



  - Glibc is installed from Gentoo repository into Prefix, screening

    out bugs or obsoleteness of host libc.





Gentoo Prefix is for bringing out the virtues of Gentoo on different

operating systems, the Gentoo Prefix project develops and maintains a

way of installing Gentoo systems in a non-standard location, designated

by a "prefix".  Portage serves as a secondary package manager in

parallel to that of the host.  At present, Gentoo Prefix works on all

the Linux distributions tested by the community[2].



This novel approach of Prefix has been initiated by Ruud (redlizard)

Koolen and Benda (heroxbd) Xu since 2012, and was mentored by Luca

(lu_zero) Barbato during Google Summer of Code 2013[3].  We would like

to thank our fellow developers for their support and input, as well as

our testers, including but not limited to xdej, scateu, yangsheng6810,

prefixer, R0b0t1, lightbringer, yegle, nanikata, Steven Trogdon, Marko

Vendelin, Martin Mokrejš and François Bissey.





To find out more and get started, please visit



  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix





Cheers,

Benda on behalf of Gentoo Prefix team



1. RAP:= Rap Ain't Prefix

2. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/tested

3. https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2013/heroxbd/5659014549471232