Apparently, though unproven, at 18:13 on Tuesday 07 September 2010, Ajai Khattri did opine thusly:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Al wrote: > >> When you say Gentoo, do you mean Portage? Remember Windows has a lot of > >> limitations that WILL get in your way so dont be surprised when things > >> break. > > > > I am specially interested in Gentoo because it is not another linux > > distribution, but an administration tool to build your own sources and > > it's scope is wider than linux. > > Which doesn't actually answer the question... Gentoo is an idea, a community, an infrastructure. It is not code or a distro. To build something, you do not use gentoo, you use portage. To be accurate though, you use the EAPIs, which portage implements. And currently, even after a lot of hard work, the EAPIs are still in large part effectively defined as "whatever portage does". So it really does come down to portage after all. Portage has a hard dependency on bash. portage is intimately wrapped up in the linux way of doing things. So unless you are someone who likes pain and/or likes massive porting efforts, portage (aka gentoo) has an effective scope that is pretty much linux and not much else. As evidence: the only non-linux port that went anywhere was on FreeBSD, now moribund for years. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
