On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 12:23 -0500, Nick Dimiduk wrote: > Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > when talking to a colleague of mine (he's using Gentoo-Linux, and wants > > to use prefixed portage), an idea for the prefix-api came up: > > <snip> (no room to comment at this time) > > > Another possible feature in the future (not finished thinking about yet) > > could be to have portage install each (non-system-)package into a > > separate prefix within its domain, without need to change prefix-api. > > This could help ebuild-devs to detect unknown dependencies, which are > > not found implicitly if not specified at configure-line. > > Well - only for a testing system, and to be enabled explicitly > > by setting FEATURES. > > This sounds a bit like the intentions of DragonflyBSD. Am I > miss-understanding you?
Huh - what is DragonflyBSD, never heard before. Found dragonflybsd.org... Well - have read the Goals->packages there, seems that they are after some similar goals/address similar problems. Do you mean that ? -haubi -- [email protected] mailing list
