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Bug 156024 - Plan to support only Darwin : ie without Mac OS X installed
Summary: Plan to support only Darwin : ie without Mac OS X installed
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo/Alt
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Mac OSX (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Other
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: osx porters
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Reported: 2006-11-23 05:06 UTC by Marc-Andre Landry
Modified: 2006-12-14 11:53 UTC (History)
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Description Marc-Andre Landry 2006-11-23 05:06:56 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061122 BonEcho/2.0
Build Identifier: 

I would like to know if there is a possibility to only install Darwin and use
the Gentoo/Mac OSX portage tree to maintain the installation. May someone link
me to a informational page or forward me a email which may help me fulfill the
gap within the installation from ISO to linking the Portage system. I don't plan
to install Mac OSX onto the machine as it don't meet requirement of the Intel
released.
Your welcome,
Marc-Andr
Comment 1 Marc-Andre Landry 2006-11-23 05:06:56 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061122 BonEcho/2.0
Build Identifier: 

I would like to know if there is a possibility to only install Darwin and use
the Gentoo/Mac OSX portage tree to maintain the installation. May someone link
me to a informational page or forward me a email which may help me fulfill the
gap within the installation from ISO to linking the Portage system. I don't plan
to install Mac OSX onto the machine as it don't meet requirement of the Intel
released.
Your welcome,
Marc-André Landry

Reproducible: Always
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-11-23 05:55:15 UTC 
May I ask why is this a blocker bug, and why are you asking question in bugzilla?
Comment 3 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev 2006-11-23 06:05:57 UTC 
please have a look at this:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/

also, feel free to subscribe to gentoo-alt@lists.gentoo.org
Comment 4 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev 2006-12-13 01:24:42 UTC 
this is actually not a bug.
Comment 5 Marc-Andre Landry 2006-12-13 04:48:00 UTC 
This enhancement won't see the day else I do it... missing knowledge to do so it will wait.

Gentoo-Alt isn't what I had in mind. More something like Gentoo FreeBDS LiveCD but maybe this is all due to underlaying licenses.
Comment 6 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev 2006-12-13 06:34:05 UTC 
maybe you are looking for GNU/Darwin:
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
Comment 7 Marc-Andre Landry 2006-12-14 11:53:23 UTC 
QUOTE=http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=599432

From a certain standpoint, it is a joke to release the kernel source code without 
releasing the AppleACPIPlatform driver.

END of QUOTE

Licensing and openness problem within Apple render my project idea infeasible. At least from a FREE and NON-FREE stand of view. I may dig this further if I see a viable solution.