Brian Harring wrote: > Problem with the preference you have above is you're considering > portage as the primary pkg manager/authority for that system, which it > isn't on osx. If a tool is broken you change it, the apple toolchain and probably userspace could enjoy some improvements. > > It's the secondary manager. So it shouldn't be stomping on the toes > of what exists already unless absolutely required (shifting these > utilities into a seperate directory, and abusing the path or alising > as they do already is saner IMHO). That's ok, my idea of replacement could be done just switching the paths and segregating the bogus components. > > Consider the case of backing out portage/gentoo when it's the > secondary pkg manager; worst case, a few empty dirs and configs get > left. Should still be the same base system it was prior to the gentoo > experiment though... I think everybody agrees about that.
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