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Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them by surajrmal on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @11:20PM (#43407997)
What would that even mean?
Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them by sham1 on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @12:14AM (#43408216)
Portage on top of Fuchsia, probably. There's not all that much more to Gentoo all things considered.
Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them by nickysielicki on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @03:10AM (#43409014)
Zircon is miles apart from linux. It’s like saying you’d run Portage on top of Windows. You and what army?
Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them by chasil on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @04:27AM (#43409430)
Windows was built with a POSIX subsystem from the very beginning. WSL 1 uses something analogous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

The Zircon kernel does not support signals, so basic C is not going to work well.

"It is heavily inspired by Unix kernels, but differs greatly. For example, it does not support Unix-like signals, but incorporates event-driven programming and the observer pattern."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_(operating_system)#K...

Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them by 6SixTy on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @01:26PM (#43414871)
As long as there's Bash and Python support, Gentoo Prefix could as well. That's kind of the only things that are hard needed for Gentoo as Portage is written in Python and Ebuilds are Bash scripts. Bigger issue would be that the Fuchsia kernel likely isn't POSIX complete.
Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them by ryao on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @02:47PM (#43415869)
Gentoo Portage had support for running on top of Interix, so it did run on Windows at some point (over 15 years ago).