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Re: [MiNT] Gentoo

On 21/10/14 19:52, Peter Slegg wrote:
> I haven't looked deeply into Gentoo because I didn't want
> to confuse my mainly sparemint based set-up.
>
> It looks like Alan has put a lot of work into building quite
> a lot of packages.
>
> Does portage work with these binaries in a similar way to
> rpm ?
>
> I downloaded portage but I think it needs python >= 2.7 and I
> currently have 2.3.4 from Sparemint so some preliminary work
> is needed to get started with gentoo.
>
> Is python-exec needed ?
>

For Gentoo, it's best to use the entire distro rather than
picking pieces if you're intending to use portage.

portage can be a little slow on anything less than a Falcon
though.

Alan.