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

[Maxim Vorontsov]

Hi.

Maybe it offtop, but are you know about yet another gentoo-based distro
Calculate?

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=calculate

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Paul Hartman <
paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:18 PM, skiarxon <skiarxon@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
> > <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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"?
> >>
> >> they use the portage tree and a gentoo like /etc. Just for example.
> AFAIR
> >> of
> >> course.
> >
> > 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)
>
>


-- 
brgds
Maxim