Re: [gentoo-osx] New document: Project targets

[Nathan]

On 12/14/05, Dirk Schönberger <dirk.schoenberger@×××××××××.de> wrote:
> > If you want to keep a "pure" Unix system hierarchy (which is my intention)
> > you should try to keep all elements on the place
> > where they are expected. This means no additional appendizes just because
> it
> > is technically opportune.
>
> > If I wanted a unclean file system, I could change to DarwinPorts or Fink
> ;)
>
> Just to show what I mean:
>
> My idea is to implement a better MacOS GUI integration of Gentoo installed
> tools.
> This means real app folders which contain the actual GUI and which call the
> correct Unix executables.
> These packages could either directly packages in ebuilds, or they could be
> external packages which are dependent on the actuall application.
> I.e. something like
>
>                            depends on
> ghostscript-gui <----- ghostscript
>
> In a non-prefixed approach, I can be sure that there will exist an
> executable /usr/bin/gs, which I can call.
> What I am to do in a prefixed system? Hope that the users did not forget to
> call setenv-gentoo on bootup?
> Start a local shell which calls setenv-gentoo, which maybe itself be
> somewhere on
> /Volumes/usbdrive/.hidden/far_away/big/long/path/to/gentoo/bin/setenv-gentoo
> And do a exec "/bin/sh gs"? This sounds like a rather big security problem
> to me, because nothing stops any malware to change things like
> the path variable.
>
> Regards
> Dirk

Sounds like you should read:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/macos/targets.xml

If I'm not mistaken, you want the "Darwin Portage"-type setup.  If you
read the "Road Map" section, you will see that it's been decided to
head in the "Gentoo Portage for Mac OS X" direction (i.e. prefix).

I'm sure that no one would object if you decided to head up your own
"Darwin Portage" project, as there would be some overlap.

~ Nathan

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