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If your knowledgeable enough to install and use portage, then certainly a PKGBUILD for a desired package shouldn't be hard to do.
Its not that hard, it really isn't.
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i agree, oh my god *to quote friends*
that ebuild was nasty *thank god for pkgbuild*
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i know this thread is pretty much done with but i just wanted to add:
Use makepkg and srcpac - support Arch Linux -it's why you chose it, right?
Plus I'll say - ease of creating ebuilds vs ease of creating PKGBUILDs was a major reason I choose Arch
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I agree on the point that pacman is a specific distro package management system. So using another for arch linux can rapidly make the system messy.
The only point I'm interrested to install portage isn't for the emerge tool (=pacman) but I need several package which aren't currently in Arch linux. Coming from gentoo, the easiest way I have found is to take the package ebuild and to make a PKGBUILD based on.
So I haven't to spend too much time to create the needed package
(I have deleted gentoo because I have a small hard drive (Laptop...)).
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now if someone could write a script that converts ebuilds to PKGBUILDs we'd be rolling
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now if someone could write a script that converts ebuilds to PKGBUILDs we'd be rolling
I agree. If I knew anything about ebuilds, I'd give it a shot.
Maybe a new thread should be started regarding this...
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there are 2 options:
- make pkgbuilds from ebuilds
- make arch packages from gentoo packages + some ebuild data
Smaller packages have rather clean ebuilds and the install function should be easy to generate from the gentoo one
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who wants to write a program which converts those 2?
ick... I'd much rather do it by hand... it can't be that hard... maybe hit the ebuild and get all the name/version/descr crap, and then manually manage the build sections...
get three or four people together and just pump the AUR full of crap 8)
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If your knowledgeable enough to install and use portage, then certainly a PKGBUILD for a desired package shouldn't be hard to do.
Its not that hard, it really isn't.
Agree.
I built PKGBUILD f-spot last night and it doesn't require any expertise to do that just patience and some effort to check dependencies.
What I can suggest if someone can create some tools to convert ebuilds to PKGBUILD. That would be great.
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Emerde was done by a few italian guys and, as u know, merda == shit. It wasn't casual, they made it intentionally
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so, are we then obligated to make pacShit? (ewww)
FudgePac
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