1 |
Very good ideas in this thread. Why not open a thread in the Gentoo |
2 |
forums and start a public discussion there? |
3 |
|
4 |
|
5 |
In regard to your question, have you thought about the --oneshot option? |
6 |
That way you can manually upgrade the packages you see fit. |
7 |
|
8 |
James wrote: |
9 |
> Mike Myers <fluffymikey <at> gmail.com> writes: |
10 |
> |
11 |
> |
12 |
>> I think I like your idea better, about distributing binaries. Do you know if |
13 |
>> |
14 |
> something like this is being worked on? I'm certain that a common method to |
15 |
> this, like what you're saying, would allow Gentoo to become scalable to the |
16 |
> point of being easily usable on a large scale. |
17 |
> |
18 |
> |
19 |
> It's a lot of work. I'll be pusing binaries to lots of systems, but, it going |
20 |
> to take me months to get ready. I was hoping others with similar goals would |
21 |
> 'band together' to come up with a solution that combines the needs for the |
22 |
> casual user as well as those of us that want to manage dozens to hundres |
23 |
> of Gentoo systems..... |
24 |
> |
25 |
> I need to refine the idea, and my goal is mostly embedded gentoo sytems, but, |
26 |
> they are very similar to gentoo-servers. Expanding the idea to workstation, |
27 |
> at least for core software, is not that difficult. |
28 |
> |
29 |
> I do not intend to get into 'competiion' with the devs, particularly on |
30 |
> applications that are big, complex, or prone to breakage (OO).... |
31 |
> |
32 |
> |
33 |
> It'd really be better to do this as a group, but, I've found little interest, |
34 |
> most probably due to the fact that most folks are already bogged down with |
35 |
> their own ambitions. |
36 |
> |
37 |
> |
38 |
> James |
39 |
> |
40 |
> |
41 |
> |
42 |
> |
43 |
> |
44 |
> |