On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 18:15, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
> In my opinion this "... we are a source distribution -- we do not deliver 
> binaries" is the false way doing things. We really _need_ both: sources 
> and binaries. And I would really like to see Gentoo move a bit toward 
> distributing binaries as well. Maybe RPM, maybe DEB. Portage should make 
> it possible. Just have a look at FreeBSD: it is mainly a source 
> distribution, but you can have binary packages for everything in the ports 
> tree if you want.
> 
> It would really be nice if I could find all compiled packages as binary in 
> some directory after compilation of the base distribution finished. Superb 
> if I could define some flag somewhere telling Gentoo generating "RPM", 
> "DEB", or "pkg" binary packages.
> 
> This way I get all the best of both worlds: binaries for those not having 
> the time to compile all and everything from scratch, sources for those, 
> who like to have an amazingly actual, up to date, and optimized system.

Examine the FEATURES="buildpkg" documentation in make.conf, also emerge
--help for -b and -B options.