Re: [gentoo-dev] how to handle sensitive files when generating binary packages

[Daniel Ostrow <dostrow@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 16:08 -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 23:35 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:31:32 -0700
> > Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 22:01 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > > > The specific underlying question being, what are the use cases for
> > > > binary packages?
> > > 
> > > Ever managed a network of multiple Gentoo identical Gentoo machines?
> > 
> > That's one use case, yes. Now what are the others?
> 
> Release building... Backups... Testing newer packages...
> 
> Oh yeah,and who said we really needed more than one use case?  I think
> providing tools to allow Gentoo to be adopted in the corporate
> environment is reason enough to have binary package support, and I feel
> that many people will agree with me.
> 

The issue isn't whether or not we should have them, or for that matter
whether or not there is more then one use case. The issue is making sure
that we know what the use cases are to ensure that the tools we have are
flexible enough to be able to support every case and so that we don't
paint ourselves into a corner by making decisions before we know how
people plan on using the tool.

At least that is how I see it...

--Dan

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