From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6478 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Sep 2003 22:51:09 -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 26202 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2003 22:51:09 -0000 From: donnie berkholz To: Thomas Schweikle Cc: brad@gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-2wx+irTMN4H/d6Vo9hPF" Message-Id: <1063666143.1904.6.camel@sfa235036.richmond.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:49:03 -0400 X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-38.4, required 5, EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, IN_REP_TO, MIME_LONG_LINE_QP, PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_XIMIAN) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4.1 and GRP X-Archives-Salt: 0c7be21a-dd2b-454e-8c41-67d29f7110d4 X-Archives-Hash: c246857bfbb913eb193d6918ce541c60 --=-2wx+irTMN4H/d6Vo9hPF Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 18:15, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > In my opinion this "... we are a source distribution -- we do not deliver= =20 > binaries" is the false way doing things. We really _need_ both: sources=20 > and binaries. And I would really like to see Gentoo move a bit toward=20 > distributing binaries as well. Maybe RPM, maybe DEB. Portage should make=20 > it possible. Just have a look at FreeBSD: it is mainly a source=20 > distribution, but you can have binary packages for everything in the port= s=20 > tree if you want. >=20 > It would really be nice if I could find all compiled packages as binary i= n=20 > some directory after compilation of the base distribution finished. Super= b=20 > if I could define some flag somewhere telling Gentoo generating "RPM",=20 > "DEB", or "pkg" binary packages. >=20 > This way I get all the best of both worlds: binaries for those not having= =20 > the time to compile all and everything from scratch, sources for those,=20 > who like to have an amazingly actual, up to date, and optimized system. Examine the FEATURES=3D"buildpkg" documentation in make.conf, also emerge --help for -b and -B options. --=-2wx+irTMN4H/d6Vo9hPF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/ZkHfXVaO67S1rtsRAmq5AKDn3W+QESeWHrD80ruBz212tBXKBACfWfv/ UkdPp0vcRtsbxSgXh4F98YE= =4SHM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-2wx+irTMN4H/d6Vo9hPF--