Re: [tlug] Gentoo Binaries?

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> phillip tribble writes:
>
>  > Is it possible to have Gentoo only install binary packages instead of
>  > compiling?
>
> If you want a feature set that's not in any binary distribution you
> know, you have three choices:
>
> 1)  Look harder.  Worth a try, depending on how much of a hurry you're
>     in.
>
> 2)  Give up on some of the features for now, send mail to your chosen
>     distro's package maintainers requesting them, and be thankful that
>     at least you're not dependent on having 25 million users plead for
>     your features like Microsoft users are.
>
> 3)  Get a configurable source distribution, and build in the features
>     you want.

  4)  Make your own packages.  I have done this for both debian and RHEL
      for some time but to do it properly is a lot more effort then
      writing ebuilds.

Edward