Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I don't know enough about Portage to answer that question. I do know any package manager which made it into the standard distribution would need to work for at least the big three platforms (Windows/Mac/*nix) :)
Being written in python - and hopefully integrated into Distutils - why shouldn't it work on any platform that Python worked on?
Assumptions about directory structures, and the like. IIRC, Portage was written for the Gentoo project, so it could assume that it was installing stuff to a Gentoo system. Package management systems have a distressing habit of infecting their *architecture* with these assumptions. It makes adapting them difficult.
Also, Portage needs to execute subprocesses, something which is notoriously platform dependent. 2.4's subprocess module should probably be used here, but I don't think Portage does, yet. OTOH, it's Gentoo, so it wouldn't surprise me, either. :-)
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