* 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:
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> 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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