Did you consider packaging aspcud for gentoo? Are there gentoo-specific
issues with that route?

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> wrote:

> On 2016-07-11 10:55 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
> > But then again there is opam. If you can't update the system but need
> > newer ocaml it's easy enough to build it locally. Half the time you
> > need opam just because the distribution doesn't even have everything
> > you use packaged.
>
> OTOH installing opam itself can be difficult because of its
> dependencies, mostly aspcud.
>
> I just switched to gentoo, and there it is pretty much impossible unless
> one's content with the internal solver.
>
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