I've never used gentoo sorry. I'm wondering if "apt-get install" could be set up to compile from source and install that (sort of automatically), rather than install the binary?
Due to admining a number of machines for a small non profit human rights association (and a few personal boxen for myself and others), and problems sometimes with internet connectivity, I use debmirror to maintain a local debian package mirror, and I add in "source" packages too. There are the buildd, and perhaps more apropos debomatic, and I'm wondering if anyone has used these to do something like gentoo for their debian install, or if that's a bit beyond reasonable? Where (as in my case) there are at least three different machine types, if I wanted to minimize build times, I would need to create "locally compiled" package pools for each machine type. In which case why not use the binary packages? Well, why use gentoo? I'm guessing optimizing package builds for your specific machine type(s). And something that seems even more appealing to me is an apt-get source resulting in a git repo, and then "upgrade" for that package becomes just "git pull; recompile, rebuild debian package; install" - the git pull for a Linux kernel upgrade for example, is much smaller than downloading source and binary packages, and provides a full source archive - having been a programmer, this seems quite appealing. "Why not use gentoo?" Well, I like debian. In fact, I have used Debian for so many years, the particular configurations and directory etc choices are well ingrained for me. I just want more. I'm imagining the debian developers feeding their debianizations to their packages, to us users, via git (or their vcs of choice say hg or whatever), rather than via the package distribution system per se, even if local installations go through a locally built binary package. TIA Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOsGNSTT7ZCJFxdC1Gq0j2=grjymqk2jrptxxsteht5ogxv...@mail.gmail.com
