Portage to be ported to Windows

edudlive · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 557

http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10616

I'm not sure what to think of this, but cool idea.

codergeek42 · Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 10:41 pm Post subject:

My comment is number 14...

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Shadow Skill · Veteran Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 1023

there is something so right yet so wrong about the whole idea. such a system could even be adapted to native windows applications even possibly eliminating the need for the current method of installing binaries in Windows. I would actually like Microsoft to take a serious look at the way Linux installs things a unified installer with already working dependency hell avoidance would be a truly kickass adition to windows.
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Shadow Skill · Veteran Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 1023

LOL well you would just be prompted for the serial it wouldn't be THAT bad if done right.
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freelight · Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 11:44 pm Post subject:

That problem has already been addressed in Gentoo Portage. Fetch restrictions (insert the Photoshop CD, or download it from Adobe, or pirate it like 90% of its users, but you're not getting it from Portage), promt for the serial and license agreement during the installation, and you're good to go.
Also, I don't think it's a good idea to link to that website here.

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If you were to apply this to Windows when ever you had to entre the serial you would simply be prompted when first trying to execute the program or there would be a prompt inside the installer, this is not a real problem at all if you use a bit of sense.
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Given M. Sur · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 4:11 am Post subject:

There is already proprietary software in portage that requires serials to work. UT2004 and VMWare come to mind immediately as those are the two that I use, but I'm quite certain there are more.
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Shadow Skill · Veteran Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 1023

But OMFG wasn't it suppossed to be magically impossible for such things to be installed via a portage or even yum like system? I mean friggin WOW!
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96140 · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1324

Gentoo? On Windows?

That's distinctly unholy.

I feel bad enough booting into Windows in order to get some other tasks done that don't work in Linux, and even checking the Gentoo forums to help troubleshoot someone's minor installation difficulties feels ... wrong, somehow.

Like I'm tainting something good and right (Gentoo) with something evil and scheming (Windows).

Sure, maybe it's a step toward reliability from Microsoft, but I wonder if they'd try to copyright it or in some other ways twist the license/copyrights to their advantage.

Portage? On Windows? Why?!? I can't think of any pressing reasons to implement it.

Good luck to the developers, though.

Maybe this is a good thing--a better future, more thoroughly Gentoo-ified world.

maxima · Apprentice Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 150

is it related to this?

Given M. Sur · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 7:33 am Post subject:

vonhelmet · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 7:41 am Post subject:

This is pretty stupid.

For one thing, there is no dependency hell in Windows. It doesn't exist. The worst I've ever gone through was needing to install VB6 libraries from elsewhere.

Also, if it's only for SFU then it's not like there's going to be a huge library of software... just your basic Unix tools.

Whoop-di-doo.
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