Re: [gentoo-user] What has Sabayon to do with Gentoo?

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:18 PM, skiarxon <skiarxon@×××××.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
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>> On Tuesday 31 May 2011 17:05:06 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> > Hi, all.
>> >
>> > Sabayon Linux is said to be "derived" from Gentoo.  Yet, reading reviews
>> > of Sabayon (from www.distrowatch.org), I fail to see any similarity
>> > between G and S; S is a binary distribution, doesn't have portage, and
>> > doesn't look like having much flexibility.
>> >
>> > Purely out of curiosity, what is the nature of this "derivation"?
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>> they use the portage tree and a gentoo like /etc. Just for example. AFAIR
>> of
>> course.
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> You can think Sabayon as another Gentoo overlay (you can actually install
> the overlay in your Gentoo installation). It provides binary packages and
> many other things to help the user, still though you can use emerge and all
> the features (if not all most) Gentoo has to offer. All in all is a pretty
> good job.
>

In fact I believe you can use layman to add the sabayon overlay,
emerge entropy (Sabayon's binary package manager) and start using it.
(I'm sure it's not entirely that straightforward, but that's the
executive summary)