On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Thomas Penteker <tek@serverop.de> wrote:
* lucas@die.net.au (lucas@die.net.au) wrote:
Is it just me or does anyone disagree that CRUX is a source based distro.
1. Release ISOs are shipped with packages. 2. Applications are installed from packages. (...)
In total this topic does not seem to be a point of much interest to me.
This topic interests me little also. For those that care, CRUX can be considered both a source and binary based distribution, however, perhaps we should call it neither. I have many a time explained to new users of CRUX that it builds packages from source, but that you can also just use packages (if you have them). I guess one thing to point out is that we do not have a central repository of binary packages like we do ports. Furthermore, I do not th8ink having one in future would be beneficial to CRUX anyway. In multiple systems in a network I have maintained such a repository myself so that packages could be built on a master server and upgraded on all other nodes. Point in case, CRUX is neither solely a source or binary based distribution. Let us talk about this no further :) cheers James