[gentoo-dev] Mixing Gentoo in other distro... - Real dependency

[gentoo-dev] Mixing Gentoo in other distro... - Real dependency

[Yannick Koehler]

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I was insanely thinking about what would it take to make portage works in 
other distro.  One of the obvious thing is the fact that portage dependencies 
is based on other portage package instead of installed files.

Is there any plans to have those actually change to the real dependency that 
package does require.  Also, because most project are using configure and 
makefiles, wouldn't there be a way to automatically generate the dependency 
when such build mechanism is used?

I could write a script which would parse source files and extract system 
includes and other libraries but isn't there already tools that does that 
such as autoscan which generate configure script based on your sources?

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Yannick Koehler
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Mixing Gentoo in other distro... - Real dependency

[A. Craig West]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Yannick Koehler wrote:

> I was insanely thinking about what would it take to make portage works in 
> other distro.  One of the obvious thing is the fact that portage dependencies 
> is based on other portage package instead of installed files.
> 
> Is there any plans to have those actually change to the real dependency that 
> package does require.  Also, because most project are using configure and 
> makefiles, wouldn't there be a way to automatically generate the dependency 
> when such build mechanism is used?
> 
> I could write a script which would parse source files and extract system 
> includes and other libraries but isn't there already tools that does that 
> such as autoscan which generate configure script based on your sources?

The one tool that helps a lot for using portage with other distros is
'emerge inject'. What would be nice is a way to scripts to automatically
inject as much as possible based on installed libraries, or possibly one that
understands the other distros dependency system and converts it. It should be
possible to map quite a bit of the portage tree to various RPMs, for example.

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