[Techtalk] Problems Compiling XFree86

[Julie Bovee Hill]

On 9/12/05, Maluvia wrote:
> 
> Gentoo maintains a version of Kdrive that works on AMD64, but I don't have gentoo installed and don't know how portage works yet.
> Can you install gentoo's portage on a non-gentoo system and use their ebuilds?
> Might be an interesting experiment. ;-)
> 

Yes, you can install and run Portage on a non-Gentoo system.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28559
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-125553.html

Portage intro:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1

Julie