On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 18:24 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
One goal of Utopios's new package manager is to more or less always build from source, but if it's already been done, use those binaries. Think Portage, but if someone has compatible CHOST/CFLAGS and the same USE flags, it will use their binaries or distcc if they're not done yet. Plus a bit of security measures, of course.
What would be really cool would be if some people could offer their servers for hosting these "already compiled" packages -- and then separate out individual modules for things like different USE flag settings in to different binary subcomponents so that you could download whatever you wanted any time without having to compile. It would be called B.I.N.A.R.Y. D.I.S.T.R.O. which would stand for Better, Individualize, Non-compile, All-arch Redistribution, Yes, Don't Include, Source To Redistribute Originals.
Yes, someone should invent that. Oh wait.
You know about apt-get source package; dpkg-build right?