Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Conary

[Roman Gaufman <hackeron@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:52:16 +0200, Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Actually it's part of Portage (at least until .51_rc9), but that's
> nitpicking :)
yup:
server / # qpkg -f /usr/sbin/dispatch-conf
sys-apps/portage *

What do you mean until .51_rc9? -- will it be included in .51?
There's no way in hell I'm moving back to etc-update -- and frankly, I
dont see how anyone can tolerate it :)

> Some issues with binary releases are covered by a document that rac has on
> his dev page. It's not the official Gentoo policy, but it does make you
> think about it :)
> 
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~rac/binaries.html
Personally, I find binary packages on gentoo perfect for my use. I
have several computers on the network, all running gentoo with no gcc
or any header files. I then have an offline machine that gets
everything compiled and put on a shared /usr/portage for all the
machines to just emerge -k simultaneously.

That way when I emerge something, I can review the config files, add
some custom options and some fancy polish and quickpkg will bundle
everything together all pre-configured.

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