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On 07/05/17 08:57, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> I skimmed thru some of the documentation about using binary pkgs |
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> online, but it kind of indicated it might not be possible to get |
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> everything in that format. |
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> Wondering if using mostly binary pkgs is a biggish hassle or if it can |
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> be done... and done without the time-sink always involved in `emerge |
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> world'..(over time)? |
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> As a longish time gentoo user (more than 12 yrs at a guess)... I can |
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> only guess at the enormous amount of time I've spent getting thru |
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> various aspects of `emerge world'. I am sure it would be quite an |
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> astounding figure. |
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> Due to an unusual thickness of skull... I may have spent more time |
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> than the average bear. |
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> So, can someone be a gentoo user and NOT subscribe to one of the |
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> main tenets of the gentoo view of things. |
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Yep, just select a gentoo derivative distro [1] that puts out binaries |
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as an alternative. But then when you do not find a binary for what you |
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want, you mostly end up with a 'one-off' to 'hokey' manual install |
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semantic. Most folks astute enough to run gentoo, fear binaries put |
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together and offered as part of a distro. Are checksums enough to ensure |
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the integrity of internet available binaries? I'd suspect that is a |
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common attack vector for today's interlopers.... |
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CoreOS may be good for you, if you can stomach systemd. |
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caveat emptor... |
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hth, |
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James |
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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distributions_based_on_Gentoo |
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