On Saturday 12 August 2006 20:13, Kevin Winter wrote:
> I think thats an excellent idea. The current approach seems to use
> ROOT= in order to install packages.  I really like the idea of a
> gentoo version of uclibc and such, almost like the linux kernel.

the idea is that the backend would still do this with emerge via ROOT and what 
not, users would just not have to do every package by hand

think what crossdev does for cross-compilers ... it simply emerges the 
packages with the proper env vars set
-mike