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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: Terje Kvernes <terjekv@××××××××.no>
Cc: Dewet Diener <gentoo@×××××.org>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:33:12
Message-Id: 1061991221.23218.108.camel@vertigo
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo by Terje Kvernes
1 On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:11, Terje Kvernes wrote:
2 > you need a map between known packages in RedHat (and in Mandrake)
3 > towards their Gentoo-equivalents. this only needs to be done once
4 > per version per distribution. the big issue is that there is no
5 > frontend to portage that'll make this easy to incorporate.
6
7 You would also need some way to do it for any non-distribution RPM.
8
9 There are quite a few programs out there that are made by third parties
10 that are RPM-only.
11
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13 Chris Gianelloni
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