* Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo
@ 2003-08-26 20:52 99% ` Andrew Gaffney
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From: Andrew Gaffney @ 2003-08-26 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Dewet Diener; +Cc: Gentoo Dev
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.
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