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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiplatform Portage.
  @ 2002-04-29  5:35 99%   ` Arcady Genkin
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From: Arcady Genkin @ 2002-04-29  5:35 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

Craig Joly <craig@taipan.mudshark.org> writes:

> On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 06:00:10PM +1000, Tristan Ball wrote:
>> 
>> How hard would it be to extend the emerge/portage system for other OS's.
>> I'm particularly interested in the idea of being able to do something
>> like an "emerge kde" on a sun box, and have kde and required stuff
>> appear under /opt or /usr/local somewhere.
>> 
>> Has anyone else considered this?
>> 
> I'm actually looking into this.  I'm a little swamped at the moment,
> so other than thinking about it, nothing has been done yet.  Hopefully
> I'll get to it in a month or so, after I finish my current projects
> and then knock our documentation system back into place (it was a good
> idea when they implemented it but scaleability never crossed their
> minds).  Let me know if you get anything done.

Since this comes up quite often, I've opened a bug report to track
this problem.  You guys may want to get your addresses into the CC for
that bug.
             http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2215

I'd love to be able to use Portage under Solaris and RedHat (stuck
with over a hundred RedHat workstations at work, no chance to switch
in the nearest future).
-- 
Arcady Genkin


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