On 15-12-2005 00:36:31 +0100, Dirk Schnberger wrote: > > I'm sure that no one would object if you decided to head up your own > > "Darwin Portage" project, as there would be some overlap.
It's a matter of priorities, and the prefix support is higer in the list than Darwin Portage. > I don't think I have the time or will to implement my own Gentoo subproject. > If a prefix based approach is implemented, I think I will have to switch to > Fink or DarwinPorts, where at least exist a _fixed_ prefix, where I can > depend upon. two things: 1) if (and only if) the Gentoo for OS X installer allows you to set the prefix, then nothing prevents you from setting it to /, IMHO, resulting in the situation as now. 2) if the Gentoo for OS X installer doesn't allows you to set it, the prefix location will in practise be as fixed as for DarwinPorts and Fink. > I would regret this, because I still think that Gentoo in its current form > is the more "pure" approach. > My ideal would still be to implement a thing like a unionfs which allows > clean overriding of system level libraries. If you happen to find out how to do this properly, I would be more than willing to see whether it is possible to simply use an offset to install in, but not changing the paths within this offset (like a chroot jail), such that the packages in your union mount look for things in the main file system (i.e. "/"). Since your previous results have proven to be interesting, but not fully covering (eg. global union mount), in the meanwhile we keep on working on the prefix. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo for Mac OS X Project -- Interim Lead -- [email protected] mailing list
