Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:31:32 -0700 > Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 22:01 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> The specific underlying question being, what are the use cases for >>> binary packages? >> Ever managed a network of multiple Gentoo identical Gentoo machines? > > That's one use case, yes. Now what are the others? >
Preparing binaries for really small boxes, you prepare a single basic image and then provide a binhost to handle updates and optional packages. again, same cflags/useflags/targets. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
