Steve Long wrote: [Fri Nov 03 2006, 02:47:52AM CST] > I appreciate that many will be against this idea, but I'd still like to > discuss it: a binary repository for gentoo. > > Yes, I know gentoo is a meta-distro. And that there isn't loads of > bandwidth. That's easily got round.
It is? > The main problem I see is USE flags (devs already > compile with standard C-flags right?) but I was thinking about standardising > for 2 or 3 types of network- SOHO, medium and large enterprise (eg for LDAP > etc) would solve most cases. We can always tag pkgs with USE flags. > > If gentoo is still serious about enterprise adoption, it needs a binary repo > (so we can avoid system breakage) which would of course be a little bit > behind. I'd be happy to contribute time, as I'm sure many other users would. I think you'll find that there is little interest (among devs) in Gentoo maintaining a binary sub-distribution. My view, and for some time it's been our semi-official view, is that Gentoo can serve as a nice base for creating a binary distribution, and we encourage people to do so, but that it shouldn't be a part of Gentoo itself. (That said, it's true that there is still a real need for better support for binaries in portage, especially for handling USE conflicts.) As for Gentoo being serious about enterprise adoption, I don't agree that we need a binary repo. I think we ought to make it easy for our users to create and use their own, customized, distribution. That's our strength as a meta-distribution. (We also need to make it easy to install and replicate custom distributions, but we already have Catalyst and the Seeds project addressing those issues.) -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76
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