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Sorry to come to this so late - I'm just back from holiday. |
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On Aug 8, 2005, at 6:38 am, Kito wrote: |
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> Maybe you misunderstood, what I think is futile is trying to avoid |
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> overwriting files, and accommodating things portage has no knowledge |
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> of or control over. |
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Unless you avoid over-writing Mac OS's system files Gentoo-OSX will |
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never become mainstream. I don't know if this is of interest to you or |
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not, but I for one will never install Gentoo-OSX unless it installs |
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safely into an /opt (or similar) directory - overwriting Apple's system |
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files is _bound_ to break something eventually. |
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You say that accommodating Appe's system is accommodating files portage |
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has no knowledge of or control over, but at least you have control over |
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the whole portage tree. |
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Imagine I spend several ££$£$$£$£$£ on Mathematica, and have a problem |
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with it; I contact Wolfram support and they say, "Do you have |
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Gentoo-OSX installed? Sorry, we can't support you - you might have |
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over-written any of Apple's system files, so we need to you format your |
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hard-drive & reinstall OS X before submitting this bug". |
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There is no way that Gentoo can resolve a situation like this to the be |
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benefit of the user. If, on the other hand, apps-foo/bar-player depends |
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upon Apple's tar to unpack it, and Apple break that, then you're in a |
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position to change the ebuild and have a fix rolled-out for all users |
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next time they sync the tree. |
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I haven't ever used Portage on OS X, and I don't develop for |
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Gentoo-Linux (just submit the occasional bug report and do testing), |
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but I've been using Gentoo for a couple of years now and have been |
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interested in this project from the start - it was my G4 that Dan |
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Robbins shelled into to first try porting Portage in June 2003. It |
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seems to me that an understanding that over-writing Apple's system |
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files MUST affect system stability, and is hence something that the |
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majority of users should avoid, would go a long way to getting this |
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project taken more seriously by devs of other arches. |
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Stroller. |
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