RE: [gentoo-dev] other formats?

[Todd Wright]

Sanity in Anarchy Wrote:

> I had sent a comment before that I liked the idea of Gentoo and
> Portage, but I
> wanted access to more programs than were offered in Portage's format.
> However, someone's mentioned to me that RPM support can be compiled into
> Debian's apt-get.  Can I set up apt-get and/or rpm and/or any
> others on Gentoo
> Linux, or can I get Portage to recognize those formats?

Portage / Gentoo is only new. It is understandable that there are not ebuilds available yet for every package. You could always do what I did.  I wanted Hercules, the mainframe emulator on my Gentoo system, so I created an ebuild and submitted it

If everyone did that, we would have just about everything available in no time.

I dont know if I like the idea of incorporating debian tools, or even rpm (a red hat tool). Gentoo uses portage. If you prefer debian tools, why not install debian?

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