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The Need of Binary Packages

Why gentoo needs an official up-to-date GRP project?

there are many reasons to have a gentoo official and up-to-date GRP project, most important reasons are:

- Heavy testing of the common needed ebuilds and portage itself.
- Give the average user the choice to get ride of the Dependencies and USE flags hell .
- Give the user the choice to get a good working system in little time and efforts .
- Increase the gentoo users community for about 5X more .
- If it's an official project it'll be trusted more than any other one .
- If it's official many developers will join .
- If many developers join then portage will get great performance optimization and innovation in many areas, specially in the Binary packages support and [ RDEPEND, DEPEND ] areas .
- If many developers join then the number of ebuilds, software and Technologies supported will increase.
- If many developers join then almost all the ebuilds will be up-to-date .

Well, I don't think gentoo

Well, I don't think gentoo 'needs' binary packages. If users like binary packages, there are plenty of other distros with packaging systems with binary packages (and all the limitations that apply). For those of us who want source packages (and the applicable benefits), there is gentoo. Just weigh the benefits and make your choice, but trying to make gentoo become what it is not is probably not the answer.

  • By Anonymous (not verified) at 2008-02-12 23:34
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Good view but

i think you're right but i'm sure that gentoo developers are totally against the binary packages idea, so there will never be an official GRP project because they already start one some time ago then they stop it.

  • By Anonymous (not verified) at 2007-12-25 13:44
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