On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:30:02 +0000 Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > My compiles as a dev are of very minimal use to anybody except me. > > There are too many things that are specific to my systems. > > > Sure. Presumably you test packages with standard C-flags as users are > advised to before bug-reporting? Other than USE flags what else would > make your packages unsuitable for others? If it's only USE flags, > then at least the pkg is a start- if others want different settings > they can compile their own. The (well, at least one) problem is that you're only thinking about individual packages. However to be of any real use you'd need all packages to use the same system configuration. Otherwise you'll get ABI breakages and other runtime errors. Oh, and people using those binaries would ahve to use the same system configuration as well (or at least a very similar one). This pretty much rules out devs submitting home-build binary packages of ebuilds they maintain to a central repository. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. -- [email protected] mailing list
