On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 10:59:27 BST Thomas Mueller wrote: > Can Portage be used as a package manager with anything other than Linux?
Yes, it used to be, but from what I know the *BSD projects were abandoned due to lack of maintainers. > I like some features of Portage; think it might be better than FreeBSD ports > or NetBSD pkgsrc, or is just a case of the grass being greener on the other > side? Have a look here for historical references in this effort: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_BSD > I like the option "--with-bdeps=y", wish FreeBSD's synth and poudriere had > that option. > > But I don't want to use Portage where it would be incompatible. > > Portage's assumption of location of python binary and /bin/bash are contrary > to anything non-Linux, or even a Linux that uses another shell such as dash > or mksh. > > Tom
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