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Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 06 November 2007 21:18:30 pk wrote: |
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>> Can someone in the know explain what this means? I googled and saw that |
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>> GNU userland is related to Gentoo/BSD. |
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> Not really. Gentoo/GNU/Linux uses a GNU userland. Gentoo/*BSD uses a BSD |
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> userland.. |
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>> My guess would be that the Elibc is also BSD related. I'm running a |
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>> Gentoo/GNU/Linux-system... |
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> Gentoo/GNU/Linux uses a glibc ELIBC. Gentoo/FBSD uses FreeBSD ELIBC. Other |
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> alternatives include uclibc.. |
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>> Why would "sed" be emerged with -GNU and tar plus others be (+)GNU? |
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> "(-GNU%*)" means the conditional was removed from IUSE since the last time you |
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> installed the package. "(GNU%*)" means it was added to IUSE. IUSE records all |
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> conditionals that an ebuild can use. |
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> As you can read in the discussion zmedico refers to USERLAND, ELIBC, ARCH and |
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> KERNEL, however, gets treated specially, which means an ebuild can have |
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> conditionals on them without recording it in IUSE. Therefore the addition or |
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> removal of either of those variables may not change anything at all to the |
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> build which is why it's only a cosmetic change.. |
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Ok, thank you very much for the explanation, both of you. I don't know |
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enough of the portage build system to know what all of this means so |
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I'll have to investigate further... |
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Best regards |
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Peter K |
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