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On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 23:35 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:31:32 -0700 |
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> Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 22:01 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > > The specific underlying question being, what are the use cases for |
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> > > binary packages? |
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> > Ever managed a network of multiple Gentoo identical Gentoo machines? |
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> That's one use case, yes. Now what are the others? |
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Release building... Backups... Testing newer packages... |
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Oh yeah,and who said we really needed more than one use case? I think |
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providing tools to allow Gentoo to be adopted in the corporate |
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environment is reason enough to have binary package support, and I feel |
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that many people will agree with me. |
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