From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13774 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Apr 2003 08:45:10 -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 17797 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2003 08:45:09 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:45:06 +0200 From: Spider To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030410104506.7c4dc541.spider@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200304100413.03618.cedric@neopeak.com> References: <200304100013.30307.gentoo@mchsi.com> <20030410092759.14d8e24c.spider@gentoo.org> <200304100413.03618.cedric@neopeak.com> Organization: Chaotic X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.LI0vgzB+v8X.7S" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary release of gentoo X-Archives-Salt: ee51ebc8-7ac7-4379-a6f3-5f1824d02eee X-Archives-Hash: b5bcc461e1e88ee67c95f9aa0ac0e200 --=.LI0vgzB+v8X.7S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit begin quote On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 04:13:03 -0400 Cedric Veilleux wrote: > USE flags enabled in this package (only the ones relevant to the > particuliar package) already there, tagged at the end of a .tbz2 > Then a binary enabled portage would contact a master server and ask > for a binary package compiled with the right combination of USE flags, > profile and CHOST and if it exists download it and install it, and if > it does not compile it from the sources.. unfortunately this requires a loot of computing and storage on the server, as well as bandwidth. That why I suggested a set of simple defaults, people who go beyond that, go for source. We really shouldnt spend the energy on "fixing" another set of binary package management when others have done that for us already. (dpkg, rpm, slack, bsd) The GRP are a nice step, and works well, if we could make it a bit more usable than current. I dont advocate going for a lot of hoops and developertime to make a binary distro as smooth as Gentoo is from source, since it wouldnt ever be maintained in the same way. I do however advocate that GRP become easier to use by default. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end --=.LI0vgzB+v8X.7S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+lS8UZS9CZTi033kRAlX3AJwIgBNg6QErZBaX8tOYVF1m5gMf2gCeNAeD sQBW7xhzJaQlcoeg1XWcXrU= =Pzew -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.LI0vgzB+v8X.7S--