lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: > > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> lx...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: >>> This is what I am doing in Sabayon, creating a new layer over Portage => >>> Entropy. I'm almost done, just need to work out some documentation and >>> apidocs. >>> http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=entropy.git;a=summary >>> >> Only problem with entropy is that it doesn't work nice with portage. > > You are wrong. From entropy 0.95+ all works fine, the only problem > previous releases had was with Portage world file being filled > incorrectly (emaint --fix world does it, but I am sure you know this). > http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=entropy.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=portage
That's funny, as I just installed Sabayon 4.1 KDE version the other day, and did an equo world update. After that I wanted to install quassel, but as the version in equo is ancient, I went for emerge. That wanted to install qt-core and some other qt packages, which obviously were already installed as deps for KDE. The emerge failed with a file collision of qt-core (the newly emerged package with the previous binary package). I then turned to the #sabayon irc channel and was told: <yngwin> ok, so you can't just mix equo and emerge? <Azerthoth> yngwin honestly you can, but you better have a real firm grip on how both package systems work, and be willing to brick your system <yngwin> well, i know portage, i dont know equo yet <Azerthoth> equo is preferred barring that, converting the system to portage only, but mixing the two can be really tricky <Azerthoth> not saying you will brick your system, just saying that the odds increase exponentially I would love Sabayon to be Gentoo with binary support, that would have worked well on my laptop. But if mixing the package managers is so problematic, that's just not worth the trouble for me. Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison ______________________________________________________
