From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from conan.invetech.com.au (unknown [202.139.170.194]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DD7ABDBD for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 03:00:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by conan.invetech.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g3R82vY14349 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:02:57 +1000 Received: from igor.melb.vsl (igor.melb.vsl [172.22.2.30]) by conan.invetech.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3R82tQ14309 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:02:55 +1000 Received: from vsl.com.au (seaport.melb.vsl [172.22.2.41]) by igor.melb.vsl (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g3R80Ck24833 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:00:12 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3CCA5A8A.1CCA89C8@vsl.com.au> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:00:10 +1000 From: Tristan Ball Organization: Vision Systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "gentoo-dev@gentoo.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-scanner: Scanned by Inflex & McAffee. Subject: [gentoo-dev] Multiplatform Portage. Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: Tristan.Ball@vsl.com.au List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 082a1156-180a-4a30-9890-dbe66b93a5fb X-Archives-Hash: f4ad40e213fb82e117b88797dfa95d49 Guys, first up, let me say I'm a fan of gentoo, for want of a better word, it tastes good! :-) I haven't really had a chance to look at the system closely, I'm payed to babysit some solaris servers, not play with my workstation - which is what brings me to my question: How hard would it be to extend the emerge/portage system for other OS's. I'm particularly interested in the idea of being able to do something like an "emerge kde" on a sun box, and have kde and required stuff appear under /opt or /usr/local somewhere. Has anyone else considered this? Thanks, Tristan.