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Hi, |
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On 11/14/2017 10:04 AM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: |
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> Well, Gentoo is a Meta Distribution, and it's binary instantiation usually |
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> does emerge on the users machine(s). So users actually do have their private |
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> binary distribution - either with or without caching the binary packages. |
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> (In my opinion, a binary distribution is little more than a cache for binary |
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> packages, to avoid the need for compilation resources on the target machine.) |
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> Of course there is chance that users do have identical profile setups (USE flags, |
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> optimization flags, etc.), which is where OBS (or similar) indeed feels useful. |
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> Rather than sharing binary packages, an idea is to share Gentoo user's profile |
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> setups - with the cache for binary packages to be optional (yet powered by some |
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> open build service). Note that some USE flags disallow binary packaging at all. |
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> Wouldn't we gain something like a "Social Linux Distribution Network" then? |
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> /haubi/ |
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I think that proposal would be awesome to be achieved! |
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I like very much the idea. I'll review that. |
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