[H-GEN] The Future of Packaging

[Brenton Bills]

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On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 04:21:07PM +1000, David Findlay wrote:

> > How is this different from the BSD Ports tree ?
> 
> Not sure about the BSD ports tree, but this would be running on Linux not BSD, 
> although I suppose you could use the same format for BSD, but that could be 
> confusing. Thanks,
> 
www.gentoo.org, a ports like system for linux,

>From the website,

"Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast, completely free Linux distribution for x86, 
PowerPC, Sparc and Sparc64 that's geared towards Linux power users. Unlike other 
distros, Gentoo Linux has an advanced package management system called Portage. 
Portage is a true ports system in the tradition of BSD ports, but is Python-based 
and sports a number of advanced features including dependencies, fine-grained package
management, "fake" (OpenBSD-style) installs, path sandboxing, safe unmerging, system 
profiles, virtual packages, config file management, and more."

Your original request for multiple platforms is not quite satisfied, as only,
"x86, PowerPC, Sparc and Sparc64" are supported. 

Thanks,
	Brenton Bills.

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