portage

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You don't think that portage and USE flags distinguishes Gentoo from the other distros in any way?

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the cost of carrying or transporting

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noun

the cost of carrying or transporting

noun

overland track between navigable waterways

noun

carrying boats and supplies overland

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for portage.

noun

the cost of carrying or transporting

noun

overland track between navigable waterways

noun

carrying boats and supplies overland

Example sentences

You don't think that portage and USE flags distinguishes Gentoo from the other distros in any way?

And setting up a PPA is way more complicated than maintaining a portage overlay in some VCS.

" Where I worked, we actually needed that capability, but never found the time to create our own profile, and prune our own portage tree.

You'll get the benefit of portage's sandbox and other package management features too. If Gentoo's ebuild had Gentoo-specific patches, you'll get these compiled into the latest version as well.

I know for a fact practically every piece software I use is programmed in either C or C++.The sole exceptions are Anki and Gentoo's portage system, both Python.

Maybe something like copying /usr/portage/app-emulation/wine to /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/ and adding an epatch command in.

But as I understand it, the base platform of AppCloud is predominately a Gentoo-based custom portage tree that Ezra built years ago, and it has seen very few updates.