On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:09:30 +0200 Juergen.Daubert@t-online.de (Juergen Daubert) wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:29:45PM +0200, Simone Rota wrote: [...]
- Provide binary packages. I asked for this some time ago; while it's a bit premature to add this feature to CLC (and maybe many users/packagers don't like the idea), I will keep binary packages for personal use and eventually upload them somewhere in the net, keeping them separate from CLC.
Why do we need binaries ? To spare the user from compiling the packages from source, to have a "complete" system up and running as fast as possible whithout any knowledge ? Are we going away from "experienced user" to mainstream distri ?
Hi Jürgen, thanks for your reply. IMHO binary packages could be useful under certain circumstances: - First, They save a lot of time. For experienced users too ;-) - Machines without gcc: think of thin clients or production environments (or always-online machines: firewalls, servers...) where it's preferred not to have a build environment available for security reasons. - Quick setup of testing machines. - And so on... I understand that you could still not see any benefit of using binaries in the scenarios described above. What I don't completely understand is the binary<->no knowledge association. I don't think a newbie could actually learn something just by watching the output of pkgmk. CRUX has been for me a great way to learn something about Linux, but this is totally unrelated to the fact that it is a source-based distro. The fact that manual configuration is needed for everything you install is the key feature, and this has nothing to do with the way I installed the package.
Just my two cents ;)
It's always good to hear different opinions; regarding binary packages I anticipated there would be "negative" reactions, that's why the project will be developed outside CLC.
regards Jürgen
Best regards, Simone