> Mike Myers wrote:
> > I just wanted to add something to the original post.
> >
> > I've recently began experimenting with Debian and noticed their updating
> > system is exactly like what I was asking about.  Basically, there's
> > package updates, and then there's distro updates.  Why is it
> > unreasonable for Gentoo to have something like this?  I think it would
> > help Gentoo a lot in the server market, where scalability is important.
>

While I might personally like what you are suggesting I think that the
idea fails under the load of trying to get the community to agree on
what use flags/compiler flags, etc. would be the standard that all
these packages are built with. Do you make the binary packages small
or do you make them full featured? Do you support AMD CPU flags?
Intel? Both or neither somehow?

Personally I think there are so many options in Gentoo that coming up
with agreement on what to do will be pretty difficult.

That said if a set of binary packages were out there I'd probably
investigate using it for certain machines, but most likely never my
personal desktop machine.

Cheers,
Mark
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