| Stephen Gran on 18 Jul 2005 15:51:11 -0000 |
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On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 10:53:30AM -0400, sean finney said: > hi, > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 10:26:14AM -0400, Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: > > recompile. There are lots of packages that have -rN (int N), which > > indicates that the package has had some patches applied (usually by Gentoo > > devs). The advantage of having a source package is that all the dev has to > > do is add the patch location and tell the ebuild to apply patches on > > compile, and release the ebuild (after testing it, of course). This is > > _much_ faster than a binary release. > > how exactly is this faster than a binary release? Come on, sean, you get the idea - instead of doing QA on the new software in a central location, and testing that it both works and upgrades cleanly before release, they prefer that everyone using a distro should have to do that work themselves. They end up with a functional piece of software that upgrades and works at the same time as those using a binary distribution, they just get to work harder for it :) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Did you know that for the price of a | | steve@lobefin.net | 280-Z you can buy two Z-80's? -- P.J. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | Plauger | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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