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From: "Alec Warner" <antarus@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GNU userland and binary package (WAS: RFC: sh versionator.eclass)
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On 10/8/07, Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 21:26 -0600, Joe Peterson wrote:
> > Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > Fabian has summed it up nicely, thanks. i could care less what your userland
> > > is outside of the ebuild environment since it doesnt matter to ebuild
> > > writers. you want a deficient runtime environment, more power to you, but
> > > forcing that environment onto ebuild developers is not acceptable. off the
> > > top of my head, i'd like to see GNU find/xargs added to the ebuild
> > > environment.
> > > -mike
> >
> > Mike, exactly as I said. That's option #2, and I think it could be a
> > great solution. As for deficient, well, that's in the eye of the
> > beholder. ;)
> >
> > -Joe
>
> Question, if you go for #2. Does that mean you will need all the
> required GNU userland to do binary only installs?
>
> It would be highly desireable to be able to do binary installs (write
> your own binary only package manager) without depending on all the GNU
> stuff needed to compile the packages.
Your own binary only package manager would still need to provide
Option #2; ie you need to have GNU tools installed to process the
binary packages. pkg_* functions could still have GNU stuff in them
and those still get run during a binary package install.
-Alec
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