On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008 00:04:51 +0200 >> 2. Can Paludis run as an ordinary user? > >Paludis itself can. Ebuilds can't, since they need to chown things.
Fakeroot? > > I've tried this many times with portage with varying results. I've > > read about contrarius, but I want more than just a cross-toolchain. I > > want it to build a complete rootfs and I want it to automatically work > > out that target arch != host arch, so it needs to build a > > cross-toolchain. > > Again, not something you can do with ebuilds. Any ebuild replacement/enhancement planned to do this? :-) > > I realise Paludis is probably pretty far from my personal end-game and > > I'm not asking for anyone to implement what I want. I just want an > > honest opinion of how far Paludis is from these kind of things. > > The package manager side wouldn't be too hard to do. The problem is > writing all the packages... Well I was hoping the package heirarchy could be automatically generated from the ebuilds. Sounds like the answer is "pretty far", but not because of Paludis itself. Thanks for the info. I guess I'll have to struggle on with OpenEmbedded. :-( Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ paludis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pioto.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user
