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On 8/4/07, Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Alec Warner wrote: |
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> > So to sum up, we don't support it because it has really bad make.conf |
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> > settings (CFLAGS/LDFLAGS). It would be like saying 'we support you |
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> > using -ffast-math'. Which is false, we will tell you to rebuild your |
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> > system without -ffast-math. If you come to me with a sabayon problem, |
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> > I'll tell you to rebuild your system with sane build flags unless you |
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> > have good evidence that those flags are not the problem. Most Sabayon |
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> > users are not prepared to do that. |
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> I don't understand why he didn't just do a binary distro; that's what gentoo |
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> is setup to make (as a meta-distro.) The only reason I can think of is lack |
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> of resources, and that's one of the reasons I think of it as leeching, |
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> since gentoo infra is used to supply portage and distfiles. The other thing |
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> is, there probably wasn't such good support for overlays when he started |
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> (I'm guessing.) Nowadays, there are loads of em, and many herds have their |
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> own overlays. |
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I would say because our binary repository format currently isn't |
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exactly...what I'd call good. The code has improved a lot and I |
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recall solar working on new stuff for distribution, I am unsure if it |
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has reached stable. |
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