| About Portage |
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| 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 the Portage tree can be used by other |
| package managers. |
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| Dependencies |
| ============ |
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| Python and Bash should be the only hard dependencies. Python 2.6 is the |
| minimum supported version. |
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| Licensing and Legalese |
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| Portage is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |
| modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License |
| version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. |
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| Portage is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
| but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
| MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
| GNU General Public License for more details. |
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| You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
| along with Portage; if not, write to the Free Software |
| Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA |
| 02110-1301, USA. |
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| More information |
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| -DEVELOPING contains some code guidelines. |
| -LICENSE contains the GNU General Public License version 2. |
| -NEWS contains new features/major bug fixes for each version. |
| -RELEASE NOTES contains mainly upgrade information for each version. |
| -TEST-NOTES contains Portage unit test information. |
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| Links |
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| Gentoo project page: <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/> |
| PMS: <https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html> |
| PMS git repo: <http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git> |
