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Apparently, though unproven, at 18:13 on Tuesday 07 September 2010, Ajai |
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Khattri did opine thusly: |
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> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Al wrote: |
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> >> When you say Gentoo, do you mean Portage? Remember Windows has a lot of |
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> >> limitations that WILL get in your way so dont be surprised when things |
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> >> break. |
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> > I am specially interested in Gentoo because it is not another linux |
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> > distribution, but an administration tool to build your own sources and |
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> > it's scope is wider than linux. |
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> Which doesn't actually answer the question... |
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Gentoo is an idea, a community, an infrastructure. It is not code or a distro. |
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To build something, you do not use gentoo, you use portage. |
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To be accurate though, you use the EAPIs, which portage implements. And |
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currently, even after a lot of hard work, the EAPIs are still in large part |
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effectively defined as "whatever portage does". |
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So it really does come down to portage after all. Portage has a hard |
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dependency on bash. portage is intimately wrapped up in the linux way of doing |
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things. |
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So unless you are someone who likes pain and/or likes massive porting efforts, |
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portage (aka gentoo) has an effective scope that is pretty much linux and not |
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much else. |
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As evidence: the only non-linux port that went anywhere was on FreeBSD, now |
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moribund for years. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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