Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary release of gentoo

[Miles Egan <miles@caddr.com>]

Robert Cole wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 April 2003 11:28 pm, leahcim@ntlworld.com wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:13:30AM +0000, 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.
>>
>>I thought it was called Debian? ;o)
>>
>>Or perhaps, "I'd eat meat, if only it were vegetarian"
>>
>>Seriously though, I don't see the point, unless you want to sell more
>>T-Shirts, there are a plethora of good binary distributions of linux out
>>there already and all the downsides you list are what, imo, define Gentoo.
>>
>>I'd prefer to see gentoo improved as a source-based distribution
> 
> 
> Ditto. There is no point to a binary version of Gentoo. If you want that then 
> as Michael said just use Debian.

Actually I think a binary version would be pretty cool.  I use Gentoo 
mainly because it tracks new versions of packages so much better than 
debian.  In fact, I think I switched from debian out of frustration 
waiting for debian to package kde 3.1.  Compiling from source is cool 
too but it's not what keeps me on Gentoo.

miles


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