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On 4/30/08, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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> I think in that sense Cygwin is more Open Source, because how you get |
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> the primary shell/environment is available too. However, for me that |
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> doesn't matter, as the OS itself is inherently non-free in that sense, |
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> so that's what you have to accept first thing anyway. |
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I separate operating system and applications... Just like you run on |
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HPUX or AIX... There is Windows. |
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> Just for your information, we don't do stages at the moment, not in the |
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> forseeable future from my point of view either. Binpkgs are in the |
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> planning. In general we just do a full bootstrap, on Interix you need |
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> extra help from "prefix-launcher". |
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This is sad... I would really like to see fully operating portage on |
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Windows... It was more important to me in the past when I actually |
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used this OS... |
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I this sense [1] was a great idea! You could always use quickpkg to |
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extract binaries. |
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Alon. |
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[1] http://gentoocygwin.sourceforge.net/ |
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