Bug#987080: ITP: portage -- package management system based on ports collections

[Ludovic Bellier <ludovic.bellier.debian@zyrianes.net>]

Le 17/04/2021 à 11:57, Yangfl a écrit :
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Yangfl <mmyangfl@gmail.com>
>
> * Package name    : portage
>    Version         : 3.0.17
>    Upstream Author : Gentoo Foundation
> * URL             : https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/
> * License         : GPL-2
>    Programming Lang: Python
>    Description     : package management system based on ports collections
>
> Portage is a package management system based on ports collections. The
> Package Manager Specification Project (PMS) standardises and documents
> the behaviour of Portage so that ebuild repositories can be used by
> other package managers.

Hi Yangfl,

*I'm just curious*, what is the use case for portage in Debian?

As it's the Gentoo package manager, do you use it to install ebuild 
packages in Debian? To test ebuild packages? A Gentoo ebuild farm from 
Debian? ...

Regards

Ludovic