> I've read through
> the developer documentation and didn't find anything there. Google
> hasn't necessarily been very useful either....
> So, is it possible to sandbox a portage installation on top of say a
> debian or fedora install? If so, can anyone point me in the right
> direction?
With current ebuilds, nope. There's no global prefix offset in the
code for it (root is merge offset, not runtime prefix offset).
The osx port runs with the same ebuilds as the main portage tree right?
> Do any of the devs out here have experience with openpkg?
Pretty much an extension of rpm spec's, afaik.
Beyond that? Heh, nope :)
The basic idea is you bootstrap an environment on an existing system, and then build rpm's on top of that. It would be nice to take advantage of Gentoo's larger component tree (openpkg has ~400 items) as well as the larger gentoo community.
