On 10/8/07, Natanael Copa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 21:26 -0600, Joe Peterson wrote: > > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > Fabian has summed it up nicely, thanks. i could care less what your > > > userland > > > is outside of the ebuild environment since it doesnt matter to ebuild > > > writers. you want a deficient runtime environment, more power to you, but > > > forcing that environment onto ebuild developers is not acceptable. off > > > the > > > top of my head, i'd like to see GNU find/xargs added to the ebuild > > > environment. > > > -mike > > > > Mike, exactly as I said. That's option #2, and I think it could be a > > great solution. As for deficient, well, that's in the eye of the > > beholder. ;) > > > > -Joe > > Question, if you go for #2. Does that mean you will need all the > required GNU userland to do binary only installs? > > It would be highly desireable to be able to do binary installs (write > your own binary only package manager) without depending on all the GNU > stuff needed to compile the packages.
Your own binary only package manager would still need to provide Option #2; ie you need to have GNU tools installed to process the binary packages. pkg_* functions could still have GNU stuff in them and those still get run during a binary package install. -Alec -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
