25.09.13 04:24, Benda Xu написав(ла):
> Dear Jauhien,
> 
> Just a crazy idea. Can we have backends of Debian (dpkg/apt), Fedora
> (yum/rpm), Archlinux (pacman) and FreeBSD (ports)?
> 
> How much work is needed? If so, you know the consequence! I am too
> excited to say anything..
> 
> Cheers,
> Benda

Hi Benda,
generally there are two problems with integrating other distros package
repos:

-- problem with dependency names and different packaging strategy (one
package in Gentoo can correspond to tens of packages in other distros)
-- problem with binary dependencies (e.g. your package depends on the
particular version of a so-lib)

To address those problems is theoretically possible, but it means de
facto manually integrate and maintain those package trees. I do not
think it's a good idea as if you need Debian, you can use Debian.

The purpose of my project was to integrate upstream not distribution
specific repositories. It makes sense, as usually there is lots of
packages there depending only on few packages available in Gentoo, so
those deps can be maintained manually for the whole overlay.

So if you know any not distribution specific package repository you
need, just say me, I'll add a support for it. ) But as I've said
integration of other distros' repos looks for me as a bad idea. It's
better to spend the available time on adding new ebuilds for packages
lacking in Gentoo then on trying to maintain a dependency hell of other
distros (and it would be a hell, I guarantee you ) ).

Regards,
Jauhien