[gentoo-dev] other formats?

[gentoo-dev] other formats?

[Sanity in Anarchy]

I had sent a comment before that I liked the idea of Gentoo and Portage, but I 
wanted access to more programs than were offered in Portage's format.  
However, someone's mentioned to me that RPM support can be compiled into 
Debian's apt-get.  Can I set up apt-get and/or rpm and/or any others on Gentoo 
Linux, or can I get Portage to recognize those formats?

If not, I'd like to suggest that these features be added, and I'll probably go 
file an RFE or something.

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RE: [gentoo-dev] other formats?

[Todd Wright]

Sanity in Anarchy Wrote:

> I had sent a comment before that I liked the idea of Gentoo and 
> Portage, but I 
> wanted access to more programs than were offered in Portage's format.  
> However, someone's mentioned to me that RPM support can be compiled into 
> Debian's apt-get.  Can I set up apt-get and/or rpm and/or any 
> others on Gentoo 
> Linux, or can I get Portage to recognize those formats?

Portage / Gentoo is only new. It is understandable that there are not ebuilds available yet for every package. You could always do what I did.  I wanted Hercules, the mainframe emulator on my Gentoo system, so I created an ebuild and submitted it

If everyone did that, we would have just about everything available in no time.

I dont know if I like the idea of incorporating debian tools, or even rpm (a red hat tool). Gentoo uses portage. If you prefer debian tools, why not install debian?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] other formats?

[George Shapovalov]

You can always use rpm2targz to convert rpm package to useable form. I am not 
sure of the similar app to convert dpkg's (if it even exists).
However be aware that you are loosing the real strength and flexibility by 
resorting to precompiled packages (and they may fail as they might have some 
specific requirements).

George


On Tuesday 16 April 2002 16:05, Sanity in Anarchy wrote:
> I had sent a comment before that I liked the idea of Gentoo and Portage,
> but I wanted access to more programs than were offered in Portage's format.
> However, someone's mentioned to me that RPM support can be compiled into
> Debian's apt-get.  Can I set up apt-get and/or rpm and/or any others on
> Gentoo Linux, or can I get Portage to recognize those formats?
>
> If not, I'd like to suggest that these features be added, and I'll probably
> go file an RFE or something.
>
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