Re: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed

[Stefan Sperling <stefan@binarchy.net>]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:51:44PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 07:46:43 -0500 Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> | Frankly, it nukes the usefulness of gentoo macos/osx if portage just 
> | stomps whatever the hell it wants.
> | This is why collision-protect is on by default after all.
> 
> Hopefully that nonsense will be going away at some point...

So, there's a casual macosx user who does not yet dare to throw
away his os in favour of gentoo/ppc. Then he finds out that there
is a portage port for macosx, so why not give that a go?
If portage did any harm to his current beloved working macosx
system, and was difficult to get rid of again, would you expect
him to move to gentoo/ppc at some stage? I wouldn't.

When a friend of mine tried portage on macosx I was surprised
that things were being installed into /, not into some extra
portage directory as is common practice with *BSD ports and even
3rd party pkg managers for macosx, like fink. I suspect this has been
discussed in length before and that there were some good reasons
for this, imho, not very smart move.

All people I know who use macosx also use fink, not portage...
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stefan                                               PGP Key: 0xF59D25F0
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