Installing Portage on a non-gentoo box

[bpoint]

I've got a NAS box with a minimal binary-only custom installation, and would like to get Portage running on it so I can use emerge.

I did a search on this and found this thread, but it's dated 2004 and looks like it doesn't work anymore. Nothing really useful seemed to pop out from Google either.

Assuming I have a recent 2.6 kernel+glibc, and gcc and python are installed, what other dependencies are necessary, and what would I need to do to get Portage up and running?

Thanks for any help/suggestions!

[ Edit: If this is the wrong forum, feel free to move it. I couldn't decide if it should go here or in the 'Portage & Programming' forum. ]

[shickapooka800]

there is still a project called portage prefix that allows local installation of many packages (but not all).