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On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:24:44PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:17:38 +0200 Stefan Sperling <stefan@××××××××.net> |
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> wrote: |
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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 he's not prepared to install Gentoo (OSX or Linux) properly, he |
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> should use Fink instead. Supporting half-arsed partial installs is far |
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> too much work -- the tree just wasn't designed for it. |
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I see, so the idea behind portage on macosx is not that it provides |
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an addon for installing additional packages, but to have a mixed |
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gentoo/macosx system. The problem I see here is that users basically |
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use a system provided by two independend vendors (apple and gentoo), |
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with about zero communication between the two... |
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But if that's the design, so be it. I'm not working on this anyway, |
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nor am I using it, so I personally don't care :) |
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