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Hi, |
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> >> How hard would it be to extend the emerge/portage system for other OS's. |
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> I'd love to be able to use Portage under Solaris and RedHat (stuck |
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One of the major hurdles is that all prefixes are hardcoded to /usr, we |
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should probably start using PREFIX and then define it to /usr in the |
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profile. |
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Seems more generic to me. It would allow my organization, for instance, |
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to start using portage (we compile user packages for prefix /opt/local |
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which is NFS mounted from the server, packages "local" to the machine |
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have yet another prefix). |
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Once that's OK and we have a working portage on Solaris I don't think |
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there's much point in continuing the use of the Solaris pkgadd/pkgrm |
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stuff. Portage is far more flexible. |
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If these hurdles were fixed I could imagine portage becoming the new |
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package mechanism of choice for several distros an OS's. It would also |
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drive adoption of Gentoo even more. Consistent package management and |
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compilation are some of _the_ major hassles in system administration. |
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cheers, |
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maarten |
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