On 04/24/2012 05:48 AM, Daniel Ibn Zayd wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:46:31 -0700, walt wrote: >>> >>> It appears that you are installing gentoo as a virtual machine to >>> be run from inside of Darwin, is that how it works?
> > Yes, more like its own shell/compiler environment. I tried both fink > and macports to deal with packages on some old Macs; the problem with > fink (which I had no real problem with otherwise) is that it wasn't > obvious how to keep packages separate from the System stuff (like the > System Perl), so I had a nightmare dealing with a different Perl > version, plus CPAN, plus fink, and they didn't want to get along so > well; macports did crazy stuff like make itself owner of apps and > member of groups; again, a serious problem with boundaries. Gentoo > took a while to get installed, but I'm really happy that everything > is living in its own space....it comes with its own shell and basic > apps and Perl and and and....so I don't have to worry that I'm going > to mess up my basic OSX system. Sounds like you understand the problems better than I do. Assuming you have a newer Intel-based machine, *I* would say install gentoo as the host OS and run OSX as a VirtualBox guest. I might even be able to help you do it that way ;)
