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Steve Long wrote: [Fri Nov 03 2006, 02:47:52AM CST] |
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> I appreciate that many will be against this idea, but I'd still like to |
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> discuss it: a binary repository for gentoo. |
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> Yes, I know gentoo is a meta-distro. And that there isn't loads of |
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> bandwidth. That's easily got round. |
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It is? |
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> The main problem I see is USE flags (devs already |
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> compile with standard C-flags right?) but I was thinking about standardising |
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> for 2 or 3 types of network- SOHO, medium and large enterprise (eg for LDAP |
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> etc) would solve most cases. We can always tag pkgs with USE flags. |
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> If gentoo is still serious about enterprise adoption, it needs a binary repo |
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> (so we can avoid system breakage) which would of course be a little bit |
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> behind. I'd be happy to contribute time, as I'm sure many other users would. |
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I think you'll find that there is little interest (among devs) in Gentoo |
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maintaining a binary sub-distribution. My view, and for some time it's |
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been our semi-official view, is that Gentoo can serve as a nice base for |
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creating a binary distribution, and we encourage people to do so, but |
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that it shouldn't be a part of Gentoo itself. |
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(That said, it's true that there is still a real need for better support |
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for binaries in portage, especially for handling USE conflicts.) |
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As for Gentoo being serious about enterprise adoption, I don't agree |
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that we need a binary repo. I think we ought to make it easy for our |
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users to create and use their own, customized, distribution. That's our |
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strength as a meta-distribution. (We also need to make it easy to |
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install and replicate custom distributions, but we already have Catalyst |
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and the Seeds project addressing those issues.) |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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