El Thu, 10 May 2007 22:36:41 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big > difference between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is > it so hard to convert them? The difference is that Gentoo is not RPM based. Could it supoprt RPM? Yes, and also DEB files, and also..... As you see, each distro has it's own packaging system. Gentoo ebuilds are nothing more -ultimately- than bash scripts which provides an easy way to build stuff from source (RPM is by no means oriented on that direction, though there are also source RPM, but they are not the normal thing, like binary ebuilds are not normal either). Sure ebuilds can use data extracted from RPMs, that is no problem. But for any ebuild, a given RPM is nothing more than a tarball containing binaries, and not a proper package. -- Jesús Guerrero -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
