On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 23:35 +0100, 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?
Release building... Backups... Testing newer packages... Oh yeah,and who said we really needed more than one use case? I think providing tools to allow Gentoo to be adopted in the corporate environment is reason enough to have binary package support, and I feel that many people will agree with me. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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