On Saturday 05 April 2003 03:15, Spider wrote: > Some things I'd like to see, see this again as personal ramblings > and perhaps more or less something that might be worth looking at, > but not an official Gentoo position, ok?
And here is my comments on them. > *) improved "secure" portage, gpg signing, md5 hash and a generally > improved infrastructure there. (on its way as we speak) Good... > *) improved binary / GRP support, prebuilt binaries with default USE > flags for a system, avaiable and signed, with a feature to download > theese instead of building from source if you choose. And this should IMHO be implemented in such a way that it can be easily modified to version that automatically uses GRP packets, if the USE flags that is used to compile that packet is matches to the flags used in the users system. > *) merging stage 2 /3 into GRP packages( not completely insane IMO, > but perhaps a bit impractical) Don't know... > *) simple configuration of alternate GRP address' (for internal > network, make admin make packages and sign, then deply) Should this be like the Portage tree overlay system? It could first look from the user specified location(s), and then fall back to Gentoo CD and finally Gentoo GRP server. > *) simplify GRP package building (Documentation mainly) Haven't even looked GRP packages, so my image of them might even be completly wrong. > *) nice partitioneditor on the cd (haven't tried/Checked recently, > might be there) with a visual display of partitions and capable of > resizing things... including ntfs. This makes it easier for the people wanting to convert existing systems or when building systems with multiple harddrives. > *) kernel autoconfiguration, or "decent default" for a bloated but > functional kernel. IMHO it would be sufficient to have default config, which would have selected the default system requirement options. I addition there could be possibility to add the options that include the currently used modules for the config. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
