[rescue] Re: Re: Small serial terminal

[Frank Van Damme]

On Wednesday 19 February 2003 06:08, Koyote wrote:
> Okay. There's a relatively new linux distribution out called
> gentoo. Gentoo forgoes the standard linux/sun style package management
> for a ports derivative called portage. Portage is something like &bsd
> ports onf steroids, capable of handling multiple versions of libs and
> apps cleanly allowing per-app compiler tuning.

Sorta. There is also a global file - iirc /etc/make.conf - to specify wether 
you want to compile apps with or without java/xml/png/jpeg/... support yes or 
no.  Portage is indeed something different from the rest of the package 
management systems. As for the steriods: it indeed adds a lot of nice touches 
to ports :-)

> Portage trees for solaris would be a wonderful thing, I think. Bu tit
> would take a reasonable amount of time and rather a lot of bandwidth to
> do this in any decent manner.

Muah. You won't have to download a package for solaris and the exact same one 
for linux or bsd on every architecture. Only source files are needed. And the 
"metadata" take relatively little memory... 

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Frank Van Damme
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