From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1938 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Aug 2003 20:39:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 6578 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2003 20:39:39 -0000 Message-ID: <3F4BC89D.8060006@technaut.darktalker.net> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:52:45 -0500 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dewet Diener CC: Gentoo Dev References: <3F4BB222.3000503@technaut.darktalker.net> <200308262231.07468.gentoo@dewet.org> In-Reply-To: <200308262231.07468.gentoo@dewet.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo X-Archives-Salt: cea679a1-04b2-4c69-be92-81cfb1fdefc1 X-Archives-Hash: c4aeb7c9d24a0701fb10a45b08be404f Dewet Diener wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 21:16, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > >>I mean a program that will parse the RPMs dependencies >>and then use portage to try and satisfy those dependencies, write a >>dummy ebuild, then use portage to install it. > > > Much like g-cpan.pl? Sounds like a good idea -- the biggest problem > that I can imagine is different naming conventions: RedHat / Mdk > already use (sorta) differing schemes to name packages -- how would > one go about 'translating' this to category/ebuild names? Make the program interactive? If it can't figure it out all by itself (using some kind of algorithm) or if it has a few possibilities, it would prompt the user. -- Andrew Gaffney -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list