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From: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
To: Taylor Christopher P <ct@××××××××××.edu>
Cc: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Ported to OS X
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 21:54:52
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.44.0306032343110.7449-100000@wilma.vub.ac.be
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Ported to OS X by Taylor Christopher P
1 On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Taylor Christopher P wrote:
2
3 > when you say "open bug" whatcha mean? oh, and i need people to help me
4 > figure out somethings with the source... i remember vlad from my early
5 > gentoo-ppc days. i'll need to email them both...
6
7 open bug: vlad opened a bug assigned to sethbc regarding this matter
8 (can't remember the bug# but it was assigned to sethbc or vlad)
9
10 Pieter
11
12 > thanks!
13 >
14 > Christopher Paul Taylor, Clemson University Computer Science Dept.
15 >
16 > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
17 >
18 > > We have an open bug on it. afaik sethbc and vladimir were working on this.
19 > > You might get in contact with them. Gentoo PPC fully supports the idea of
20 > > bringing portage to OS X :-) great job
21 > >
22 > > Pieter
23 > >
24 > > On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Daniel Robbins wrote:
25 > >
26 > > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:02:59PM -0400, Taylor Christopher P wrote:
27 > > > > And if anyone else is doing something like this with some success - I'd
28 > > > > like some help or just a note so that I know that I'm not the only one
29 > > > > who's not a fan of Fink or the gnu-darwin ports projects [they're
30 > > > > packages are too old and i don't really like their systems, I love
31 > > > > portage on my desktop machine and i think having it on darwin/os x would
32 > > > > be very cool].
33 > > >
34 > > > Me too, in fact reading about your desire to get Portage running on OS X
35 > > > almost got me excited enough to run out and buy a Mac (I don't have one
36 > > > currently.) But since I don't have the funds available for that... :/
37 > > >
38 > > > One thing you could do is see if you could set up an OS X machine and give
39 > > > me root access and then I can see what I can do to get Portage working.
40 > > >
41 > > > I'm willing to make a decent investment of time for this, because the sooner
42 > > > we get Portage running on OS X, the sooner people can start making ebuilds
43 > > > for it. Just needs a little push to get off the ground.
44 > > >
45 > > > Best Regards,
46 > > >
47 > > > --
48 > > > Daniel Robbins
49 > > > Chief Architect, Gentoo Linux
50 > > > http://www.gentoo.org
51 > > >
52 > >
53 > >
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