On 18 Mar 2003, Benjamin Vander Jagt wrote: >Despite the awful experience, I still like the idea of telling your >system to just download and install everything from source code. I'd >like to see an option for RH to do that.
It will never happen, because it would defeat a large part of the entire purpose of Red Hat Linux in the first place. Quality control, and reliability. Red Hat stands absolutely nothing to gain by making the distribution automate compilation during download ala. Gentoo, and only to lose - by increasing the number of random problems that random users experience with their random compiles of random software with random compiler options. Bugzilla would essentially be worthless to us, as a large portion of bugs would simply be user goofups recompiling everything, who would then demand we fix their own problems - caused due to using random compiler options etc.. There is no viable financially successful business model that would make implementing such an ad hoc mechanism for installation whatsoever. It would only stand as an additional burden on Red Hat, and would generate zero revenue while creating all kinds of technical support and engineering problems and lowering the overall quality of the distribution. Feel free however to "want" this nonetheless... Just realize it wont ever happen unless someone else makes their own Red Hat based distribution perhaps as a hobby effort, and rolls their own, driven by the hobbiest 1337 k00ln3ss factor, and not by things that really matter. $0.02 -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
