Re: [gentoo-soc] Project Proposal : GenCC for "Gentoo Community Compiling"

[Rich Freeman]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Antoine Pinsard
<antoine.pinsard@×××××××××××.fr> wrote:
>
> Binary repository seems to be a radical but good solution to get rid of
> attack attempts (in both ways). However (though I'm sure you're aware of
> that), compilation possibilities are much too numerous to consider
> applying it. And that's Gentoo's reason of beeing. Well, I think.

Well, I'm not convinced it is practical either, but I don't see how
the "compilation possibilities" are any less complex for an ad-hoc
distributed compiler project.

Gentoo's reason for being isn't so that we can compile stuff every
time we solve it.  That is just a means to an end.  The reason for
being is so that we have a much higher level of control over what ends
up getting installed.  If users could get the same binary they would
have gotten by compiling things themselves without actually having to
compile it, I doubt anybody would miss the build time.

My basic point is that if you manage to solve the problems that
prevent an ad-hoc distribute compiler infrastructure from working,
chances are that you could just build a library of binary packages
with just as many supported options/permutations.

Rich