Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

[Brian Jackson]

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 20:58 -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
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> Brian Jackson wrote:
> > Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
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> >>Hi ebuild devs,
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> >>Here's a glep draft now for (a part of) the long-term portage-goal
> >>"act as a secondary package manager" ...
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> >>Comments welcome,
> >> haubi
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> > It's fancy, but what about ROOT? You don't like it just because you'd have /usr/local/usr/bin/foo?
> >
> ROOT doens't work for DEPENDS, only [R,P]DEPENDS which means I can't
> install everything for pkg FOO in ROOT="/opt" fex.  Mostly useful for
> alt arches when /usr is taken by the primary OS and you need portage's
> DEPEND packages to go somewhere else.

Well, I've got a bug open to have a different variable like ROOT that
portage would read config files from. Maybe you could jump on that
bandwagon, and see if you can make things work that way.

I just don't see the uptake to fix a very large portion of the tree for
something that I'd guess most devs think is pointless. That's also the
reason the "enterprise" tree hasn't taken off.

People working in their free time couldn't give a crap about people
thinking Gentoo isn't suitable for enterprise applications. In fact, I'd
bet there are even some people that already do or would sabotage such an
effort.

If you want to use portage, use Gentoo. If you want some package manager
for your solaris/x86 box(just an example!), go talk to the people that
do openembedded. They are geared toward using it as a secondary package
manager on a system.

--Iggy

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