On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:08:33 -0700 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > That's one use case, yes. Now what are the others? > > Release building... Backups... Testing newer packages... Now expand upon those. > Oh yeah,and who said we really needed more than one use case? If you make your design decisions based upon a single use case, your design will probably suck when people try to use it for anything else. Since people clearly are using binary packages for at least three different things, all of those three things need to be considered. > 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. You miss my point. I'm not saying binaries are useless. I'm saying you should establish all of what they're used for before making changes. A change that improves binary packages for one use case may make them less ideal for others. -- Ciaran McCreesh