Gubuntu (Portage in Ubuntu) :)

[Erik Bågfors]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 06:34:40 -0800, Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:28:17AM -0500, sunmicroman wrote:
> >
> > Maximilian Gerlach Wrote:
> > > >
> > > Mhm - more or less :)
> > > Portage is (in its function) similar to Debian's (and therefore
> > > Ubuntu's) 'apt', but it downloads the programs (as source) not from a
> > > repository, but from the 'original' place itself. Inside the
> > > 'ebuilds' (think of it as an equivalent of .deb files) somebody added
> > > the dependencies of this program, a description, commands that take
> > > care
> > > of compiling it properly, links to needed patches, and so on.
> > >
> > > Any corrections from the (former?) gentoo users? :)
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Yup, that's about it. And IMHO, it is the best package
> > manager/installer of any Linux distro on the planet. Better than
> > apt-get and WAY better than yum. Mainly because it seems to have like
> > 10X the software than any repository and gets updated daily. I would
> > love to see this incorporated into Ubuntu. I like Ubuntu and use it as
> > my main distro simply because it saves me the hassle (and hours) of a
> > Gentoo install (unless you use Jollix).
> >
> 
> Perhaps a killer app could use some of Gentoo's tricks to pull down
> source and autobuild a .deb.  This would be valuable for installing
> software not available in Ubuntu/Debian or keeping up with the latest
> releases.
> 

apt-get -b source program

/Erik