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From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:15:24
Message-Id: 20061103140605.GH9264@feynman.corp.halliburton.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November by Steve Long
1 Steve Long wrote: [Fri Nov 03 2006, 02:47:52AM CST]
2 > I appreciate that many will be against this idea, but I'd still like to
3 > discuss it: a binary repository for gentoo.
4 >
5 > Yes, I know gentoo is a meta-distro. And that there isn't loads of
6 > bandwidth. That's easily got round.
7
8 It is?
9
10 > The main problem I see is USE flags (devs already
11 > compile with standard C-flags right?) but I was thinking about standardising
12 > for 2 or 3 types of network- SOHO, medium and large enterprise (eg for LDAP
13 > etc) would solve most cases. We can always tag pkgs with USE flags.
14 >
15 > If gentoo is still serious about enterprise adoption, it needs a binary repo
16 > (so we can avoid system breakage) which would of course be a little bit
17 > behind. I'd be happy to contribute time, as I'm sure many other users would.
18
19 I think you'll find that there is little interest (among devs) in Gentoo
20 maintaining a binary sub-distribution. My view, and for some time it's
21 been our semi-official view, is that Gentoo can serve as a nice base for
22 creating a binary distribution, and we encourage people to do so, but
23 that it shouldn't be a part of Gentoo itself.
24
25 (That said, it's true that there is still a real need for better support
26 for binaries in portage, especially for handling USE conflicts.)
27
28 As for Gentoo being serious about enterprise adoption, I don't agree
29 that we need a binary repo. I think we ought to make it easy for our
30 users to create and use their own, customized, distribution. That's our
31 strength as a meta-distribution. (We also need to make it easy to
32 install and replicate custom distributions, but we already have Catalyst
33 and the Seeds project addressing those issues.)
34
35 -g2boojum-
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November Stuart Herbert <stuart.herbert@×××××.com>