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On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 10:59:27 BST Thomas Mueller wrote: |
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> Can Portage be used as a package manager with anything other than Linux? |
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Yes, it used to be, but from what I know the *BSD projects were abandoned due |
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to lack of maintainers. |
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> I like some features of Portage; think it might be better than FreeBSD ports |
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> or NetBSD pkgsrc, or is just a case of the grass being greener on the other |
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> side? |
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Have a look here for historical references in this effort: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_BSD |
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> I like the option "--with-bdeps=y", wish FreeBSD's synth and poudriere had |
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> that option. |
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> But I don't want to use Portage where it would be incompatible. |
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> Portage's assumption of location of python binary and /bin/bash are contrary |
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> to anything non-Linux, or even a Linux that uses another shell such as dash |
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> or mksh. |
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> Tom |