From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24849 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Apr 2003 08:08:17 -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 319 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2003 08:08:17 -0000 From: Dylan Carlson Reply-To: absinthe@gentoo.org To: Noah Justin Norris , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 04:08:15 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <200304100013.30307.gentoo@mchsi.com> In-Reply-To: <200304100013.30307.gentoo@mchsi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304100408.15866.absinthe@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary release of gentoo X-Archives-Salt: 4b86e125-e266-4b42-a79f-a5411b6b2c7f X-Archives-Hash: a0d28aec6ac8aadb1188283341ea6980 On Wednesday 09 April 2003 08:13 pm, Noah Justin Norris wrote: > Is there any interest to start a binary release of gentoo with > precompiled binaries. Im talking the entire source tree i know many > people that would switch to gentoo if they would not have to compile > every thing from source . not everyone has the fastest computer out > there. A "binary release of Gentoo" is out of scope for what Gentoo is trying to provide. We are primarily a source-based distribution, and that's where our priorities are set. Compiling the OS from scratch is not for everyone, which we recognize and that's fine ... There are some packages which make sense to have prebuilt binary options, namely Java classes... and large packages which strip CFLAGS at compile time, or ones that otherwise don't have any advantage of being compiled from source. We would be very selective of the packages which actually use this feature, as we are about -bin packages currently. The topic of source-or-binary ebuilds (user selectable) is actively being debated in -core. Several options are being discussed as to what angle we might pursue. The aim is an appropriate solution to allow for _some_ situations where binaries can be installed without cluttering the portage tree with -bin directories. Currently on the table for review is adding a prebuilt USE flag. Some are for it, some are against it. I'm sure you'll hear about it when/if anything gets decided. [...] My general stance is that if someone wants a full binary OS release, they should pursue something like Debian, Slackware, et al. That's their core competency... ours is building from source. There's no right or wrong either way, it just depends on what you're after. Cheers, Dylan Carlson Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x708E165F Key fingerprint = 3AEA DE38 FE42 15A6 C0E2 730E 3D04 BCC1 708E 165F -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list