On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:24:44PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:17:38 +0200 Stefan Sperling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> | So, there's a casual macosx user who does not yet dare to throw
> | away his os in favour of gentoo/ppc. Then he finds out that there
> | is a portage port for macosx, so why not give that a go?
> 
> If he's not prepared to install Gentoo (OSX or Linux) properly, he
> should use Fink instead. Supporting half-arsed partial installs is far
> too much work -- the tree just wasn't designed for it.
> 
> Oh, and don't even bother mentioning pathspec until you have a sane
> implementation or at least some non-marketing design docs, k tnx bye.
What the hell was the intention of pathspec anyways?  
Is it just a matter of installing to a seperate prefix?  If so, 
anyone who desires it, please look at 87877, 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87877
with the work provided by Michael Haubenwallner (haubi).  
~brian
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