On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I would venture to guess that a significant majority of users will never
> need to or want to recompile or alter the software as you suggest.
>
> They're going to want a stable, tested version of the software, and that
> means a pre-built, pre-configured binary that's been signed by their vendor.
>
> Since you need or want a more flexible system, I'd suggest you discuss
> it with the pkgbuild folks.


Or on conary, which features "cooking source recipes".
It is as easy as this:

# conary emerge --no-deps bash:source=3.2.10-7

(build bash and makes a binary set of "troves" out of it, which then
constitute a binary package that is under conary's control in its
database backend.

Configuring the "recipes" can be comapred to setting up spec files for
pkgbuild (or rpmbuild).


%martin

>
> It is highly unlikely that the IPS team will focus resources on a build
> system as it won't help us reach our primary goals and the resources
> spent developing are better spent on improving the primary user experience.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Shawn Walker
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