adcdam Posted February 12, 2018 Report Share Posted February 12, 2018 http://ravenports.ironwolf.systems/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palica Posted February 13, 2018 Report Share Posted February 13, 2018 I like to automatic perl ports generation and probably others. Maybe something we could also implement for funtoo? <= @drobbins What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adcdam Posted February 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2018 Before Ravenports Marino created a port building tool called synth programed in Ada Languaje for FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD, i tried it and it was much better than portmaster , it would be nice if Daniel, Oleg, Palica talk with Marino, perhaps new ideas will come, or something to improve portage (which is great) even more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haxmeister Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 the irony of this is that gentoo/funtoo are the perfect base from which to execute such a tool. Since binary distros have limitations on package contents that are not present in a source distro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbmorris Posted March 31, 2018 Report Share Posted March 31, 2018 Same guy that made synth: Verrrieeee-eeenterrresting. I used ports directly in FreeBSD and the control on all the compiler options was great except that I didn't know what I was doing, with the compiler options or whatever. I have a new appreciation for inter-package configuration parameters. Never actually got to using synth. That was the next planned step. My old tower sounds like half a jet engine, which does not help me figure out how to configure FreeBSD. However, that OP link sorta answers my question on why Gentoo/Funtoo (but not Ubuntu) has a limited selection of old python packages: "Python modules are similar to perl, but are more volatile." That's saying something. Perl fundamentally violates every language design principle I was ever taught for being a pet 'natural' schitzo language. I'm studying PHP and tentatively learning to hate it as well, but everybody uses it. Here's a thought: design the language grammar first from the perspective of a philosopher, i.e. a real Ph.D. Fit application domain last, by redesign iterations as convenient. It seems that Gentoo has declined in popularity, which suggests to me (as only a guess) less upstream package support for Funtoo. I'm not the only one afraid to update it seems. Has the Linux Bazaar become too bizarre? Is Gentoo running on a skeleton crew with no superstar. I'm too technically perplexed to do anything but guess, as always. Were things easier to navigate up to about 5 or 10 years ago? I had to take a hiatus. All very eiinterreszting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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