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

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

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.