On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:51:44PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 07:46:43 -0500 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Frankly, it nukes the usefulness of gentoo macos/osx if portage just > | stomps whatever the hell it wants. > | This is why collision-protect is on by default after all. > > Hopefully that nonsense will be going away at some point...
So, there's a casual macosx user who does not yet dare to throw away his os in favour of gentoo/ppc. Then he finds out that there is a portage port for macosx, so why not give that a go? If portage did any harm to his current beloved working macosx system, and was difficult to get rid of again, would you expect him to move to gentoo/ppc at some stage? I wouldn't. When a friend of mine tried portage on macosx I was surprised that things were being installed into /, not into some extra portage directory as is common practice with *BSD ports and even 3rd party pkg managers for macosx, like fink. I suspect this has been discussed in length before and that there were some good reasons for this, imho, not very smart move. All people I know who use macosx also use fink, not portage... -- stefan PGP Key: 0xF59D25F0 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
