[gentoo-portage-dev] Non-root installs

[tvali]

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?-- tvali(e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; msn: 
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Non-root installs

[Kito]

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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