Polls re: new linux distribution

[Luke-Jr]

On Tuesday 27 June 2006 18:44, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> 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 --

Plans are a peer-to-peer system for actual sharing of the binaries.

> 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.

Generally, USE flags are compile time options. Meaning you *need* to recompile 
to change them.

> You know about apt-get source package; dpkg-build right?

Yes.