From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from bashful.cdf.toronto.edu (bashful.cdf.toronto.edu [128.100.31.157]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A06AC3CD for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 00:32:49 -0500 (CDT) Received: by bashful.cdf.toronto.edu (Postfix, from userid 191) id 3B25D4211DC; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 01:35:29 -0400 (EDT) To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org From: Arcady Genkin Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiplatform Portage. References: <3CCA5A8A.1CCA89C8@vsl.com.au> <20020429052237.GA21586@dante.taipan.mudshark.org> X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 01:35:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20020429052237.GA21586@dante.taipan.mudshark.org> (Craig Joly's message of "Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:22:37 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i686-pc-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: bd1fed63-6b7c-4f9b-934c-c38910900023 X-Archives-Hash: fe01e0f7e733e22ecf5b315dc8b97f28 Craig Joly 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