From ae144dac5db79cec23250ed0a7ef16f7c6d803de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Berntsen Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:16:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add README --- README | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6b102e5cc --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +About Portage +============= + +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. + + +Dependencies +============ + +Python and Bash should be the only hard dependencies. Python 2.6 is the +minimum supported version. + + +Licensing and Legalese +======================= + +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. + +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. + +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. + + +More information +================ + +-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. + + +Links +===== +Gentoo project page: +PMS: +PMS git repository: -- 2.26.2