Portage

Sir Gawain · 11-05-2003, 03:55 AM

I have seen people moving to gentoo just for portage, a BSD ports based program. I won't go into the detail of how portage works, but after looking around the gentoo forums, I found this:

Portage on Non-Gentoo Distro

Might be worth a try. In the later pages of the topic there is an app for slackware users so portage knows what you have installed.

kasperhans · 11-05-2003, 04:20 AM

hehe sounds nice but why do this if i can have gentoo? also im using slack as well

Sir Gawain · 11-05-2003, 10:09 PM

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Originally posted by kasperhans
hehe sounds nice but why do this if i can have gentoo? also im using slack as well

Well would you use Slack over Gentoo if slack had portage?

e1000 · 11-06-2003, 12:18 AM

what someone aught to do is do a little rewriting in portage so its more portable (no pun intended)

by that i mean rather than having it configure and wirten to run in gentoo, someone aught to make a package specifically made to be installed ontop of other distros.

kasperhans · 11-06-2003, 02:26 AM

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Originally posted by Sir Gawain
Well would you use Slack over Gentoo if slack had portage?

i wouldnt know, since im now using gentoo as well and its also a good one i think now i love both slack and gentoo not sure which one i would use then maybe really slack only