Gubuntu (Portage in Ubuntu) :)

[Jerome Gotangco]

Hey if some people would really want that, they could always start a
derivative project of sorts. It's all allowed with Ubuntu anyway.

Jerome


On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:32:37 +0200, Sami Haahtinen <ressu at ressukka.net> wrote:
> mehmet erzurumlu wrote:
> > İf Gentoo integrated to Ubuntu (then we call it Gubuntu), we can see
> > more veteran linux users.
> 
> Please define veteran.
> 
> +30 years with linux and had a hand to hand combat with IBM, Microsoft
> or Sun?
> 
> Seriously though, not all old timers want gentoo. For me, it's too much
> trouble. I have better things to do with my CPU time than to compile
> OpenOffice.org or Mozilla. But i do agree that if someone integrated
> dpkg support to portage, it might prove to be an advantage. Think about
> it, .ebuild files get updated more often than the debian packages (well
> not always) and you get a bigger variety of versions. If someone wants
> to have mono 1.1.5 in ubuntu (i had this dream last night) they would
> just simply build it from an ebuild package and it would be made in to a
> .deb and get installed.
> 
> This ofcourse means trouble in some cases, like building libc from an
> .ebuild which would most likely end up as the last thing you do with
> that installation.
> 
> Other than that, i once said and said it often since then, 'Gentoo, 5
> months and still installing'



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