On 12/27/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mike Myers <fluffymikey <at> gmail.com> writes: > > I think I like your idea better, about distributing binaries. Do you know if something like this is being worked on? I'm certain that a common method to this, like what you're saying, would allow Gentoo to become scalable to the point of being easily usable on a large scale. It's a lot of work. I'll be pusing binaries to lots of systems, but, it going to take me months to get ready. I was hoping others with similar goals would 'band together' to come up with a solution that combines the needs for the casual user as well as those of us that want to manage dozens to hundres of Gentoo systems..... I need to refine the idea, and my goal is mostly embedded gentoo sytems, but, they are very similar to gentoo-servers. Expanding the idea to workstation, at least for core software, is not that difficult. I do not intend to get into 'competiion' with the devs, particularly on applications that are big, complex, or prone to breakage (OO).... It'd really be better to do this as a group, but, I've found little interest, most probably due to the fact that most folks are already bogged down with their own ambitions. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
I honestly believe there's a lack of interest in such thing because most Gentoo users use it as their home computer. The fact that Gentoo doesn't scale very well prevents that market from growing at all, and I think that's why there's a lack of interest in supporting such a thing. It's kind of like a chicken and egg thing. I don't think setting something like this up would be competing with the devs, unless they already had something in mind, since a project like this would only be proxying packages and adding another package management layer to portage. I could be wrong though, I guess if you or whoever came up with a solution we would see. I don't have strong enough development skills to help handle something like that though, but I'd love to test it out.
