Am Samstag, 13. August 2016, 16:26:21 schrieb hw: > > Interesting idea :) I´d be afraid that this version of portage might > find files of the regular installation and get confused and kill the > kittens ...
Well this is essentially how portage team (to my knowlegde) tests git HEAD version of portage and its development (have a git checkout of portage code and run it from there). I've used the method a few times, but mainly to test repoman. -- Andreas K. Hüttel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/