On 11/8/06, Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I was wondering about was what mechanism you might use to provide those binary packages; would other devs also be contributing? Or is there simply nothing that might be useful for a binary distro?
Wrt the Seeds project, it's too early to have definitive answers for these questions, sorry. Speculatively, we'd have a binary repository for each seed that could be rsynced down to your local system. But it's just speculation at this stage.
I understand what you're saying in the sense that binary distros break too. Is that what you mean?
Partly. The point I'm trying to get across is the system breakage that users have to put up with has little-to-nothing to do with the fact that Gentoo is a source-based distro.
Is it correct that versioning the tree would solve it by allowing various releases to stick to lower versions of packages until they have been QAed by the gentoo community?
Yes. The Gentoo package tree is a "live" tree - whatever we commit goes straight out to the rsync mirrors for users to download and use. Live trees are not compatible w/ a high quality product. Best regards, Stu -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
