From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Nov 3 09:13:51 2008 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=wH6Jm0DHeeCZwQm1jb9JPWmJpVyeBmbr2CpCHQId96o=; b=ZAHmC/sEUMoAHhy2ouHC5FT4jaV8QfNtZ1zDO3wl855tAq1M6aEGceSUFRoaQN5eCN 7p5oPPpMGRKVtmNNQE212Ae0AcvVuT8hnsxxdoD11Bw9Jq4n7qm/Ao3b3DzL0gotRrkd oxF+yV/yrPJS8ckPE7SQd+WZuf/Lxc37ZmPbQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=iWia1kOhMLYlnu/XgMrE+vckYomySR5xfbNpB2DDwEAFVCpbBNn2CTHBtRnCjCgets U2bswJl+OjJmwMEPB9oTje9NV6c1aKqI62PrI4h9MYqQ35mHVPzptjaZe0PKwJbA3LJH Z5bUx9OV2TSFMCyHg7iNLWMhvezHsNvzUtvps= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:11:22 +0100 From: "Miro Kropacek" To: "Alan Hourihane" Subject: Re: [MiNT] Gentoo/FreeMiNT Cc: "Petr Stehlik" , "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vincent_Rivi=E8re?=" , mint In-Reply-To: <1225719731.4744.254.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_45592_29799040.1225721482786" References: <1225661875.4744.219.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <490E201B.3090307@freesbee.fr> <1225665400.4744.221.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <1225706746.3323.5.camel@petr> <1225711276.3323.16.camel@petr> <1225717631.4744.250.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <1225719731.4744.254.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: miro.kropacek@gmail.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: ------=_Part_45592_29799040.1225721482786 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline > I'm talking about the guts of it all, which are very dis-similar! Such as? Changes can be solved using patches, this is the work you have to do in every distro (i.e. disabling / patching some stuff for mint target) and I'm sure they need to patch things, too. So what's the difference? They need some changes, we need some changes, we can easily branch when platform specific things need to be done within one patch-script. Or am I missing anything else? To your latter mail: okay, but again, if we need to run some things native, they do as well! So if they can't compile using cross compiler, they have / had to solve it somehow. So you see, it's again about toolchain, nothing else. Patching kernel, mintlib etc -- this has nothing to do with distro-depend part. You have to do it for gentoo, rpm or deb. -- MiKRO / Mystic Bytes http://mikro.atari.org ------=_Part_45592_29799040.1225721482786 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
I'm talking about the guts of it all, which are very dis-similar!
Such as? Changes can be solved using patches, this is the work you have to do in every distro (i.e. disabling / patching some stuff for mint target) and I'm sure they need to patch things, too. So what's the difference? They need some changes, we need some changes, we can easily branch when platform specific things need to be done within one patch-script. Or am I missing anything else?

To your latter mail: okay, but again, if we need to run some things native, they do as well! So if they can't compile using cross compiler, they have / had to solve it somehow. So you see, it's again about toolchain, nothing else.

Patching kernel, mintlib etc -- this has nothing to do with distro-depend part. You have to do it for gentoo, rpm or deb.

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