I'm finally getting around to putting gentoo on my osx box. I found some edits that you should make to the guide: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-macos.xml 1) You need to 'emerge --oneshot --nodeps help2man' before you can 'emerge --oneshot --nodeps texinfo' 2) You should make a note when you 'emerge --oneshot --nodeps python' whether or not 10.5 users need to do this, since they didn't bootstrap it earlier. 3) When you emerge --oneshot --nodeps python, findutils, and tar, the line above it says "These are the last packages that we temporarily installed to bootstrap our system.", but that is not true. gawk is installed to bootstrap and it is not emerged until a few lines later (after portage) when following your guide. To clear up this ambiguity, you should probably just move gawk into this block before portage since the portage section mentions, "make sure it uses the tools provided by the prefix, and forget about the temporary installed tool" I installed it before portage with no problems.
Thanks for the suggestions. After I uploaded a new bootstrap image last week, I forgot to change the bootstrap guides as well. You don't need to (and should not) emerge subversion any more, as it's now part of system.
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thanks, I addressed your concerns in version 1.5 of the OSX bootstrap document ;)
