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On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:43:46PM +0300, Einar Karttunen wrote: |
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> Hello |
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> Has anyone thought about supporting alien |
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> (http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/) |
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> with gentoo? It would make thousands of |
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> packages avaiable immediately. |
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While there certainly are merits to this, and I am positive myself, it |
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does not make sense to start working on this before several more critical |
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things have settled. |
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We need to decide how our user-group setup should be, how our directory |
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structure should be (there have been serious discussions about dropping |
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/opt for kde and gnome, and just use opt for commercial, binary stuff like |
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opera, netscape, acroread, java, etc), the initscripts (which may have |
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settled now, but there has been a major rewrite here as well), and some |
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other fairly central issues. |
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Do you (or anybody else) have experience with alien except (ab)using it |
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for, say, Debian ? |
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Kind regards, |
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Karl T |
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