On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:44:03PM -0700, Jack Morgan wrote: > > Portage, the package management application of Gentoo, has the > ability to build a binary. This is handy if say you have a > homogeneous network, and only want to compile once. You then > can install the binary on all other pc in that network.
I've become accustomed to doing this under OpenBSD. You see, they don't release binaries for security bugs, just source patches, so you have to build it yourself. It's a lot easier (for me at least) to build once on the workstation and upload to the servers. Plus, I don't really want compilers and other hacker tools on my servers. > This "feature" just gives users more choices. Indeed. It is the feature that made me choose Gentoo :) Basically, Gentoo gives you an easy to use framework to make your own binary distribution, if you so wish. I ain't gonna mess with no .deb or .rpm no more. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PS Jack, could you please wrap your lines at ~72 chars? _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
