> I haven't played with Gentoo, but this sounds very similar to 'ALFS' > which is an automated LFS. It compiles on the client box, but we > could work around that via CGI/MySQL and everything is done via > chroot. Source is available too. > > The problem I'm seeing is that SF is going to _kill_ us if we start mass > compiling kernels on their systems (think of _server_overhead X100 > users at a time .... then SCP'ing this traffic back over their > connection). Anyone know someone who wants to give up the bandwidth > _and_ the processor overhead (with atleast one T!) ? Maybe a thorough > set of pre-compiled kernels to select from would be preferrable resource > wise. Besides, it will take a while to compile everything including the > modules (ie... IPSec [none | pass-through | support]. > > I love the idea, but this is going to take a _lot_ of server resources > to implement. Probably a lot of disk space considering how much > traffic this could create over what we have now!
I don't think anyone but developers need to be compiling, and I'm not suggesting we start compiling "on the fly" for the average user. My intent was to suggest we co-opt the portage system to enable an easily installed, standard development environment. We would also be able to benifit from the work of others maintaining the portage tree (updating packages with bug fixes, newer versions, etc). Packages and distributions would still be released in a binary package distribution format (likely an extension of the current tar.gz format, with a few more "meta files" for package info). Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
