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On 15-12-2005 00:36:31 +0100, Dirk Schnberger wrote: |
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> > I'm sure that no one would object if you decided to head up your own |
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> > "Darwin Portage" project, as there would be some overlap. |
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It's a matter of priorities, and the prefix support is higer in the list |
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than Darwin Portage. |
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> I don't think I have the time or will to implement my own Gentoo subproject. |
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> If a prefix based approach is implemented, I think I will have to switch to |
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> Fink or DarwinPorts, where at least exist a _fixed_ prefix, where I can |
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> depend upon. |
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two things: |
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1) if (and only if) the Gentoo for OS X installer allows you to set the |
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prefix, then nothing prevents you from setting it to /, IMHO, |
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resulting in the situation as now. |
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2) if the Gentoo for OS X installer doesn't allows you to set it, the |
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prefix location will in practise be as fixed as for DarwinPorts and |
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Fink. |
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> I would regret this, because I still think that Gentoo in its current form |
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> is the more "pure" approach. |
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> My ideal would still be to implement a thing like a unionfs which allows |
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> clean overriding of system level libraries. |
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If you happen to find out how to do this properly, I would be more than |
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willing to see whether it is possible to simply use an offset to install |
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in, but not changing the paths within this offset (like a chroot jail), |
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such that the packages in your union mount look for things in the main |
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file system (i.e. "/"). Since your previous results have proven to be |
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interesting, but not fully covering (eg. global union mount), in the |
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meanwhile we keep on working on the prefix. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo for Mac OS X Project -- Interim Lead |
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