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