Hi! On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, 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?
I sometimes help out with arch testing. I don't like having all the deps and packages installed even if I don't use them. So I usually quickpkg the and unmerge them. Advantage is: if I have to archtest a package tomorrow that needs one of the deps I merged today I don't have to recompile it. On slower archs, this really helps. Regards, Tobias -- In the future, everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
