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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Michael Haubenwallner <michael.haubenwallner@×××××××.at>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] portage and operating from a non / prefix; was: perl, sed and non-gsed
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:36:10
Message-Id: 20050407133646.GH14728@exodus.wit.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:24:44PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:17:38 +0200 Stefan Sperling <stefan@××××××××.net>
3 > wrote:
4 > | So, there's a casual macosx user who does not yet dare to throw
5 > | away his os in favour of gentoo/ppc. Then he finds out that there
6 > | is a portage port for macosx, so why not give that a go?
7 >
8 > If he's not prepared to install Gentoo (OSX or Linux) properly, he
9 > should use Fink instead. Supporting half-arsed partial installs is far
10 > too much work -- the tree just wasn't designed for it.
11 >
12 > Oh, and don't even bother mentioning pathspec until you have a sane
13 > implementation or at least some non-marketing design docs, k tnx bye.
14 What the hell was the intention of pathspec anyways?
15 Is it just a matter of installing to a seperate prefix? If so,
16 anyone who desires it, please look at 87877,
17 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87877
18 with the work provided by Michael Haubenwallner (haubi).
19 ~brian
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