From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23886 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Sep 2003 18:26:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 520 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2003 18:26:25 -0000 From: Brad Laue Reply-To: brad@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20030915180400.GB8026@gentoo.org> References: <1063641562.12338.7.camel@Discovery.brad-x.com> <20030915180400.GB8026@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Linux Message-Id: <1063650629.13890.3.camel@Discovery.brad-x.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:30:29 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4.1 and GRP X-Archives-Salt: 97d4852a-40c0-466c-bd03-50cfbad3ae8c X-Archives-Hash: f73163bf89c3a70add20bb4d8f0066fe On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 14:04, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > I'm going to be labeled as "not-user-friendly-bastard" on this one, but if > you have a user that GRP installs Gentoo, and then wants to GRP-update with > every release (and keeping in mind that drobbins want to increase the > release-frequency), I'd have to say that he should take a look at the binary > distributions. I was going more for the manageability aspect - drop Gentoo in place inside 30 minutes, update to the latest GRP packages, then begin optimizing - I'd like to think of myself as an advanced user, and I'd really find it traumatic to have to wait 56 hours for my Athlon XP to rebuild from stage1 into GNOME 2.4 and get myself back to a functional workstation. All the benefits of being source-based remain, all the performance and customizability aspects of portage, but now we have a fast/up-to-date method of getting a system running. > This is something that all distributions deliver: binary packages and an > "easy" way to source-compile packages but keep them in the database. If > Gentoo would go the same way, we are neglecting the source-based stuff. How so, beyond what we currently do with GRP? Brad -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list