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On Thursday 16 January 2003 11:05 am, Levi Ramsey wrote:
> From what I understand of Gentoo, it basically downloads the equivalent
> of an SRPM and builds it then installs the binary.
Well it uses build scripts and it downloads the soruce tar ball and then
procedes to build it according to the build script. When it gets done it
installs the app on the system.
Portage is just a build system like bsd-ports that has been adapted to linux.
The build scripts also do all the nice compile time options to enable all the
goodies and performance options.
>
> It shouldn't be that difficult in theory to hack urpmi to support that
> (providing that a source-equivalent for hdlists and so forth is
> created). If Mandrake integrates both automatic compilation of desired
> packages with the ability to download binaries, that would be a killer
> feature, imho.
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