On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 05 November 2008 21:38:09 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > > Could you please tell me what Gentoo GNU/Hurd is exactly? Is it > > something similar to Debian GNU/Hurd, with the difference that it will > > have portage, while Debian GNU/Hurd has apt? > > Gentoo GNU/Hurd was/is a try at creating a Hurd System which uses the > Gentoo > package manager (portage) instead of Debian. > > Gentoo is source-based and extremely configurable (and it's the system I've > been using for almost 5 years, now). > I see. Thanks for information :-) > Sorry if the questions look senseless, I'm just trying to figure out > > what could be the goal of developing Gentoo GNU/Hurd. > > Gentoo folks tend to like dabbling with the more complex stuff - mainly the > current purpose is tinkering, I think, but on the long run Gentoo offers > the > advantage of a very easy to maintain package repository built around > "ebuilds", which are a kind of meta-build-scripts which contain > dependencies, > build instructions and similar. > > And since ebuilds are very easy to maintain, it's far easier to keep a > system > current with them. > Is there any advantage over Debian binary packages when using ebuilds? Note that I have no special preferences with debs and I'm not sitting on a Debian system. What I pursue with this question is whether a Gentoo GNU/Hurd would be easier to maintain up-to-date with usual Gentoo repositories and whether it would be possible to avoid situations like we are in at the moment: some packages are broken and a lot of stuff does not work (emacs, for example). BTW, I once tried to build emacs from source on Hurd and the attempt failed. I used to think that if I have the source code of a program for Linux, not using some kernel interfaces, I could easily build it on the Hurd, but it proved to be false... Generally: If someone from the Gentoo community does a Gentoo GNU/Hurd, > that's > great (new contributors), but if someone would ask "should I develop a > Gentoo > GNU/Hurd or hack the Hurd itself", I'd currently say "hacking the Hurd > seems > to be priority at the moment to get the reference (debian) distribution > usable > for general desktop usage". > I see. Seems reasonable :-) Thanks for information :-) Regards, scolobb
