Steffen Barszus wrote:
> On Thursday 16 January 2003 15:45, Brook Humphrey wrote:
> 
> It is a question of money. I have to pay per minute , so I guess a sat-uplink 
> would be cheaper than dialup ;)

If all maintainers were disciplined, it would also be possible to
rebuild some packages automatically in the case where one already has
the source. For example, instead of downloading kernel,
kernel-enterprise, kernel-source and kernel-smp, one can download the
kernel SRPM and in 5 hours of build on a 800 Duron have all the
binaries. Of course, one just has to ensure that the compilers and
libraries are straight from cooker to ensure compatability, but I think
this could have merits.

Plus, if it were end-user-friendly enough (aka have a gui), it would
shut the Gentoo users up ;-).

Buchan

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