From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19366 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Apr 2003 08:55:04 -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 18966 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2003 08:55:04 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:55:03 +0100 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030410085503.GB3648@mars.leahcim.invalid> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200304100013.30307.gentoo@mchsi.com> <20030410062826.GA2310@mars.leahcim.invalid> <200304100003.57256.robert.cole@support4linux.com> <200304100429.01001.cedric@neopeak.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200304100429.01001.cedric@neopeak.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i From: leahcim@ntlworld.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary release of gentoo X-Archives-Salt: 4c44e74d-493c-4bf0-bfb1-33203a11f946 X-Archives-Hash: e4d7aa75dca2345ab87cf63fa9e21a6f On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 04:29:00AM -0400, Cedric Veilleux wrote: > I don't agree. Gentoo already supports binary packages anyways (emerge -b / > emerge -k). Yes, but there's also a good reason why --buildpkgonly needs you to have the dependancies already :o) I can build packages here and they'll be useful for me. Given the options I've set, my packages may be good for a set of people. The set of people my packages will work for is big but that's because I've not got a slow machine :o) The number of folk that have the same flags is like I'd have said a distcc / ccache compile farm that builds by request and caches packages based on USE/CFLAG etc and dependancy USE/CFLAG is a great sounding idea. You wouldn't need to change gentoo, just make it web based as proof of concept. I bet once you try to scale it, it'll be quicker to build what you want on a celery[0], and that the faster athlon-xp/p4 systems would get the best benefit. Unless you drop them. [0] the criteria being that you want a substantially different system from using stock Debian + a few source compiles like your own kernel. Highly optimised. You don't need to convince anyone that you can create a "take it or leave it" binary distribution that runs on slower machines, you need to show that you can build and distribute a gentoo system giving the celery owner the same choices as though they had used source - otherwise you haven't improved anything, imo. -- Michael. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list