Gentoo for Mac OS X Released

joeljkp writes "According to today's Gentoo Weekly News, Gentoo has released a new project: Gentoo MacOS (sic). This new distribution adds Portage, Gentoo's package manager, to Mac OS X, among other things."

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Fink?

[cortez]

Isn't this need already fulfilled by fink? I mean, you can already build from source, the software still needs to be ported to be used by gentoo, etc etc.

Although I did see one interesting thing about gentoo mac os: future versions will be able to install "regular" apps, which is cool.

Re:Resistance is Futile

[stratjakt]

"emerge openoffice" took 26 hours to complete on a Celeron 2.0ghz. Granted, it failed for no good reason halfway through the first time (a mirror went down and the braindead ebuild just stopped), but even if it hadn't it would have been a good 10 hours at best.

Of course, this is not including the day it took for "emerge kde" to get me a desktop.

Sticking in the MS Office CD (Only need the first for the basics, Word, Access, Excel) and installing takes 10 minutes.

There's other stuff I've never been able to figure out with gentoo. How do I install just the ldap clients, without the openldap servers? Building by source you'd put a .configure flag like --without-slapd and --without-slurpd, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get gentoo to do this. I auth against ldap, and building slapd and slurpd is about another half hour of compile time I don't need.

I still don't have any sound as a non-root user, and can't find any good reason for it.

Gentoo is not the future, at least surely not for desktop OS's. Compiling everything from source sucks ass.