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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Kito wrote: |
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> >I don't think it likely that apple will open source Mac OS X (or |
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> >eleven, or even system seven). I mean, is it likely that a macos |
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> >profile could ever be anything but second fiddle? |
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> The progressive profile already is, and getting moreso as it matures. |
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> fex it can/will be used to merge macos components from Apple |
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> installation media. So it is in fact handling the compilation of the |
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> 'bsd' portion of OS X from source as well as managing the proprietary |
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> libs and tools like CoreAudio, XCode, etc. This way, packages can do |
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> things like "DEPEND='>=dev-util/xcode2.1 |
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> >=media-sound/coreaudio'" and so on. So used in this manner, portage is |
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> anything but a second class citizen as everything in / is in fact |
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> managed by portage. |
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What I'm saying is that you cannot build Mac OS X, Apple will not permit |
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that. If you wan't to install X Code, you have to script apple's installer |
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to do it. That is 2nd fiddle. |
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> Even once prefixed installs are available I intend to continue |
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> development in this area to facilitate extremely minimal OS X installs |
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> for specialized applications. |
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I applaud this. But I think calling that profile "macos" is a misnomer. |
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That's why I suggested calling upstream darwin, "ppc-darwin". The fact |
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that it isn't called macos doesn't imply macos and macos packages cannot |
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be supported on it. |
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> --Kito |
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> > > >I suspect the whole question goes away when portage gets prefixes. So my |
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> > > >post was probably just noise. Sorry. |
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