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From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>
To: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>, Terje Kvernes <terjekv@××××××××.no>
Cc: Dewet Diener <gentoo@×××××.org>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:00:55
Message-Id: 200308280100.53370.luke-jr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo by Chris Gianelloni
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4 Well, many RPMs can simply be sorted into some dir in /opt, as they would be
5 binaries...
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7 On Wednesday 27 August 2003 01:33 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
8 > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:11, Terje Kvernes wrote:
9 > > you need a map between known packages in RedHat (and in Mandrake)
10 > > towards their Gentoo-equivalents. this only needs to be done once
11 > > per version per distribution. the big issue is that there is no
12 > > frontend to portage that'll make this easy to incorporate.
13 >
14 > You would also need some way to do it for any non-distribution RPM.
15 >
16 > There are quite a few programs out there that are made by third parties
17 > that are RPM-only.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo Lisa Marie Seelye <lisa@g.o>