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* Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo
  @ 2003-08-26 20:31 99% ` Dewet Diener
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From: Dewet Diener @ 2003-08-26 20:31 UTC (permalink / raw
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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?

Dewet

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