[gobolinux-users] Migrating from Gentoo

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Wed, 07 May 2008 20:21:54 +0200, Daniele Maccari <gobo.users at gmail.com> wrote:

> Laurynas O. wrote:
>> Hello,
> Hello :D
>> can GoboLinux be used as a source distro?
> Sure it can, in fact it is a mainly source based distro.
No, it's a hybrid. That recipes are used more than packages are mostly
due to our small package repository. Afaik GoboLinux was meant to be a
binary package distro, but Compile (originally a dev/packager tool?)
has proven a very affective way to install applications.

>> Installer installs binary packages, is there any simple way to
>> recompile the whole system?
> I think you should take a look at Freshen. It provides some
> functionalities you're probably used coming from portage. Also, the new
> 3.0 version has just be made available with some nice added features.
As Daniele said, Freshen is probably what you are looking for.

> You should find some post by Michael Homer here in the list.
>> How about make.conf? Is there any at all?
I have not used Gentoo, only touched it briefly, so could you explain the
use of make.conf?

>> Searched your wiki, but found nothing.
If you specified a bit more what you were looking for I might know where
to direct you. I'll give you two links that can give you an overview of
the system.

http://gobo.kundor.org/wiki/GoboLinux_Documentation_Project
http://gobo.kundor.org/wiki/Index_of_scripts

> Yeah, the wiki needs some kind of reorganization :D
>> USE flags are ofc nice, but they aren't so important.
We have use flags, not exactly as gentoo does it I've heard, but they're
there. :)
Though they've just been added, so not that many recipes use that
functionallity yet.

> Just out of curiosity, ofc?
"of course"

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/Jonas

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