From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ot1H8-0002Bg-2C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:44:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA63FE0BBC; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972B6E0BBC for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyf6 with SMTP id 6so2715839eyf.40 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:43:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=kE8azhF71AZjbh7b3ykVHdT1fzxRDKZNC5qTer2Jlrs=; b=DbcVprWJhse2ZZLnnZUTZdjFy/FalUoIwDMq/BHcdR/fzq9SHZX809kiQUZmnkY0Gz HbvX8+wvzCmDip3LUKcSwQLy1MGJ/7jD+dIgddMswiWpUyBxpGKbGXq5DM9xD2c2UzIp Tpx7N8c4sVjKRfYOBg/yFwM33WaJ+e+7wRNqE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Y8N0Ky7+uTNyjHwiMZsMdYlkMGG3SRD7yFrMchCTMXWzY0pUW8gnJej7ze66T7PBEh V8ji2Luu4Qhp7Hj+4ZzsZ6DaDXDRpk4WDNGOgoiaWtBlnf4ASvQVb7lMfFCMHW2mgFmb 1aO2NcGhRbQ44OfV+8YEpo9iYQIFDmaHn7RJ8= Received: by 10.213.34.70 with SMTP id k6mr144002ebd.65.1283877792984; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:43:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-183-214.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.183.214]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a48sm10190485eei.1.2010.09.07.09.43.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:43:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 18:40:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r2; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100907121313.Q95748@shell.bway.net> In-Reply-To: <20100907121313.Q95748@shell.bway.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009071840.12491.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 068a159c-f3d1-4457-bec0-b95f5474b4e7 X-Archives-Hash: f4f7c379a10c0f50c4e830890d13b4a3 Apparently, though unproven, at 18:13 on Tuesday 07 September 2010, Ajai Khattri did opine thusly: > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Al wrote: > >> When you say Gentoo, do you mean Portage? Remember Windows has a lot of > >> limitations that WILL get in your way so dont be surprised when things > >> break. > > > > I am specially interested in Gentoo because it is not another linux > > distribution, but an administration tool to build your own sources and > > it's scope is wider than linux. > > Which doesn't actually answer the question... Gentoo is an idea, a community, an infrastructure. It is not code or a distro. To build something, you do not use gentoo, you use portage. To be accurate though, you use the EAPIs, which portage implements. And currently, even after a lot of hard work, the EAPIs are still in large part effectively defined as "whatever portage does". So it really does come down to portage after all. Portage has a hard dependency on bash. portage is intimately wrapped up in the linux way of doing things. So unless you are someone who likes pain and/or likes massive porting efforts, portage (aka gentoo) has an effective scope that is pretty much linux and not much else. As evidence: the only non-linux port that went anywhere was on FreeBSD, now moribund for years. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com