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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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Compiling the exact same packages with the exact same |
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USE/C(XX)FLAGS/LDFLAGS/etc on multiple machines is an egregious waste of |
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resources, especially in a corporate environment where maintenance |
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windows simply aren't large enough to allow for a multiple-hour compile |
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job to run. Plus, who keeps GCC on their production servers, |
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anyway? ;] |
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