Ahem A Rivet's Shot  wrote:
>         Others have reminded me that Gentoo is a self-hosting Linux
> distribution - in many ways it looks like FreeBSD will when pkg-base
> lands. The build system is complex (portage/emerge) but it is self hosting
> by design like the BSDs.
>
I saw the references to portage and emerge on the gentoo site and didn't
recognize what they did. Alas, Raspbian does not seem to offer them:

bob@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install portage
[sudo] password for bob:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package portage
bob@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install emerge
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package emerge
bob@raspberrypi:~ $

Might they reside under another name?

It does appear that raspberrypi.org offers the sources, including
encumbered binaries. Paraphrasing a question asked elsewhere, can
apt-get (or something else) update in a granular way like subversion
or CVS? It seems wasteful to overwrite lots of files to fix a typo.

Thank you very much!

bob prohaska

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