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On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:51:44PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 07:46:43 -0500 Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o> |
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> | Frankly, it nukes the usefulness of gentoo macos/osx if portage just |
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> | stomps whatever the hell it wants. |
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> | This is why collision-protect is on by default after all. |
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> Hopefully that nonsense will be going away at some point... |
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So, there's a casual macosx user who does not yet dare to throw |
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away his os in favour of gentoo/ppc. Then he finds out that there |
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is a portage port for macosx, so why not give that a go? |
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If portage did any harm to his current beloved working macosx |
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system, and was difficult to get rid of again, would you expect |
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him to move to gentoo/ppc at some stage? I wouldn't. |
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When a friend of mine tried portage on macosx I was surprised |
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that things were being installed into /, not into some extra |
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portage directory as is common practice with *BSD ports and even |
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3rd party pkg managers for macosx, like fink. I suspect this has been |
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discussed in length before and that there were some good reasons |
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for this, imho, not very smart move. |
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All people I know who use macosx also use fink, not portage... |
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