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From: Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:34:57
Message-Id: 1205415290.17945.19.camel@nc.nor.wtbts.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree by Fabio Erculiani
1 On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 00:35 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
2
3 > I offer my help to fix DEPEND/RDEPEND split issues which is causing me
4 > a lot of headaches (along with localizations).
5 > For reference, please have a look here: http://planet.sabayonlinux.org/?p=105
6
7 I'm another distro builder that uses the Gentoo framework. I can only
8 agree. I had to roll my own binary package format and after a short
9 while I had to do the dependencies myself and just ignore RDEPEND since
10 it was close to useless.
11
12 While Gentoo is fantasitc to build stuff, the binary packagement has
13 some serious issues. It would be really nice if Gentoo could be better
14 on supporting other binary only package managers.
15
16 -nc
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <zlin@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>