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Subject:    Re: [gentoo-osx] hello and overlap with osx programs
From:       James Dennis <james () firstaidmusic ! com>
Date:       2003-10-22 1:58:53
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Why couldn't we use user local and tell users to set the /usr/local 
path's to come before the other paths? Isn't this kind of what 
/usr/local is for?
-James

On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 01:19  PM, Ansel wrote:

>> specifically, i'm thinking of how to mesh with the existing programs
>> already installed with osx. the three possibilities i see using
>> portage
>> in its current form are either to inject stubs corresponding to the
>> versions of those installed programs, or to let portage install
>> completely separate parallel programs, or to let portage take over the
>> care of those programs. the latter idea is dangerous, and the middle
>> idea is inefficient and silly, leaving injecting stubs for base osx
>> programs. is there another way to do it?
> $0.02: Seems to me you would want the option of installing the gnu
> versions of those programs.  So the stubs would really just be empty
> ebuilds or something that satisfied the "virtual" requirements for 
> those
> packages so that new packages wouldn't cause installation of the gnu
> versions, but if you did want to install a gnu version from source you
> could.  This has the side effect of generating a lot more virtuals 
> though...
>
> -Ansel.
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