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From: Arcady Genkin <agenkin@thpoon.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiplatform Portage.
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 01:35:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uoznznt6ce.fsf@bashful.cdf.toronto.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020429052237.GA21586@dante.taipan.mudshark.org> (Craig Joly's message of "Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:22:37 -0600")

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


  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-29  5:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-27  8:00 [gentoo-dev] Multiplatform Portage Tristan Ball
2002-04-29  5:22 ` Craig Joly
2002-04-29  5:35   ` Arcady Genkin [this message]
2002-04-30 15:27     ` maarten
     [not found] <20020429150603.939E7AC4A8@chiba.3jane.net>
2002-04-29 16:00 ` Bryan Muir

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