On Mar 19, 2006, at 2:05 PM, tvali wrote:
Many types of applications, like games, would be installed as
normal user as well.
Would it have any point to make portage user-installations into
user space?
There is a prefixed branch of portage that has this functionality.
Its still in a heavy state of flux, and far from stable at this
point, but the bulk of the grunt work has been done.
You can grab a snapshot from here [1] and and the corresponding
ebuild repo from here [2]
Most of the people working on it can be found on the gentoo-alt
mailing list and the #gentoo-alt IRC channel.
--Kito
[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~kito/distfiles/portage-prefix-2.1.12.tar.bz2
[2] http://gentoo.osuosl.org/experimental/snapshots/portage-alt-
prefix-latest.tar.bz2
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