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* Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo
  @ 2003-08-27 13:11 99%   ` Terje Kvernes
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From: Terje Kvernes @ 2003-08-27 13:11 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Dewet Diener; +Cc: gentoo-dev

Dewet Diener <gentoo@dewet.org> writes:

  [ ... ]

> 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?

  you need a map between known packages in RedHat (and in Mandrake)
  towards their Gentoo-equivalents.  this only needs to be done once
  per version per distribution.  the big issue is that there is no
  frontend to portage that'll make this easy to incorporate.

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Terje

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