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Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 18:13 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>> Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>>> Okay, here it goes: |
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>>> I think we could need a better support for binary packages. |
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>>> There was a thread in here a few months ago about how to offer binary |
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>>> packages for customers. As far as I remember the problem was (and still |
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>>> is) that there is no easy way to check the packages for corruption |
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>>> (trojans, stuff like that). |
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>> I know some things are only available as a binary but Gentoo is about |
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>> compiling your own packages. Binaries are for Redhat, Mandrake and |
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>> such. I moved away from that for good reason. |
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> As far as I know Gentoo is all about choice. Shouldn't the user have the |
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> choice to use binary packages? Maybe his/her laptop doesn't stand the |
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> thermal output of its CPU when emerging or maybe he/she's the |
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> administrator of a large company's network, trying to move every |
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> computer system to Gentoo. |
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> If you want Gentoo to grow and prosper, you must accept that there are |
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> people who don't want or are not able to compile every piece of software |
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> but still want to use Gentoo. |
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> Just my two cents. |
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> -Florian Philipp |
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That is when you compile it on another machine then install it on the |
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laptop. The -K option comes to mind here. |
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I also think that the "choice" is in what you install as far as programs |
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and the options they have available. Gentoo is Linux from Scratch with |
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a serious package manager. "Choice" is not about having binaries or |
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not. Also keep in mind that if a binary has something compiled in that |
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you don't want or need, you are stuck with it and its dependencies. If |
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you compile your own, you have choices. This and dependency he** is why |
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I switched from Mandrake, now known as Mandriva or something like that. |
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My two cents. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |