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Packaging port for Gentoo Linux #200

Open rozniak opened 1 year ago

rozniak commented 1 year ago

Issue to track progress on packaging port to Gentoo Linux via portage package manager

rozniak commented 7 months ago

Having thought about this lately, because I am somewhat more familiar with package managers. As someone who hasn't used Gentoo but has done a smidgen of reading up on it - does this issue make sense?

From what I understand, it doesn't really make sense to produce binary packages for Gentoo. The main purpose I gather is the ability to compile exactly what you like, how you like (with respect to things like optimisations on the user's particular CPU).

This does beg the question for how to provide 'installation' on Gentoo... whilst it is easy to add the ability to specify additional compiler options and whatnot, there is also the POV of having to set everything up manually. I suppose that is part of the appeal, but this may mean a lack of things like the OOBE since that's the 'automated' setup.

Would be interested on Gentoo users' thoughts on what they would like/expect from the project.

ernes2306 commented 5 months ago

Yeah, here in gentoo we don´t need the binary, we need the ebuild which is basicaly a set of instructions so portage can build, install and maintain the package. Gentoo Wiki explains it here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Basic_guide_to_write_Gentoo_Ebuilds