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From: Aniruddha <mailing_list@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:25:01
Message-Id: 4597AA7A.2070302@planet.nl
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage? by James
1 Very good ideas in this thread. Why not open a thread in the Gentoo
2 forums and start a public discussion there?
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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 >
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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
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44 >

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