[gentoo-dev] possible gentoo convert

[George D. Plymale]

Hi, I've had my eye on Gentoo for some time now.  I am a past Debian 
user and present FreeBSD user.  I've thought about the power of the 
marriage of the two systems and the prospect is rather exciting.  I am 
curious as to whether or not any work has been done in terms of 
downloading the FBSD ports tree Makefiles and the possibility of simply 
using a script to strip BSD Make specific instructions out and 
rebuilding them to fit a linux environment, therefore all of the BSD 
ports would be immediately available to Gentoo users.  This seems 
entirely possible and is something I would be very interested in either 
simply using or working with.  I am also curious if there has been any 
work done in terms of setting up a Gentoo cvsup source tree that would 
allow all Gentoo users to simply run something like "make update" in 
/usr/src to update the entire kernel tree instead of having to download 
kernel packages, which is a terrbily lengthy and cumbersome process.  If 
it would be possible to have a "stable" and "current" kernel tree for 
Gentoo, I think that that would give a great boon to the project.  Also, 
if some sort of structure were set up to allow "make 
kernconf=MACHINENAME buildkernel && make kernconf=MACHNAME installkernel 
&& make updateworld && make updateports" that would make this even more 
powerful than BSD systems. These things seem rather simple and straight 
forward and I am not sure if you have implemented them, they are in 
planning or need help doing so and thus this e-mail allows me to get a 
feel for the state that Gentoo is in.

Thanks much for the Christmas update, which encouraged me to look into this.

-George