On Tue, 2019-11-05 at 14:57 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > Yeah, the reason OpenPKG was able to do this is because their flavor > of RPM had specific enhancements for it: > * Macros used in the spec had their definitions embedded into the > SRPM > * Generated package names and provides were discoverable from the > spec and SRPMs > * The dependency resolver could "install" source packages, build > them, > install the artifacts, and keep going
I want to clarify that I'm not proposing that we become a non-binary distro. I think we can adapt the ideas that Gentoo and others* have employed while still shipping binary RPMs. That said, as a user of a source based distro, the idea of being able to take Fedora SRPMs and build a custom local build out of it is a neat idea, thanks for sharing. The thread a bit ago about using newer processor instructions is an example of a use case that someone might benefit from something like this. If you have a brand new processor and want to take advantage of the new instructions it can do, build your own SRPMs! * I talk about Gentoo a lot because I've been a user of that distro for a long time and have a lot of familiarity with it. I don't do so to the exclusion of how other distros have solved these problems, so please note that I equally welcome learning from Nix, Debian, or anyone else.
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