Something to try

And ...there he's gone

Well, I saw you mention Chinstrap.
The problem as Karl explained is metadata and consistency. Gentoo doesn't automatically become a good distribution for binaries just because we have binares. There is much more to something like ubuntu or fedora for that. ( Yes, I'm duly impressed, mostly by the ubuntu folks, who actually manage to do something good out of Debian without going inane. The question is if they'll manage to continue, or if the current set of incompabilities will just grow. )

However, Chinstrap deals with part of this. Providing up-to-date (well, until now) packages matching a default set of USE flags.

However, this doesn't match 100% with many users systems. A perfect example is LDAP. Fex. try : USE="-ldap" emerge pwlib. Then install a binary gnomemeeting.

Watch the explosions tickle off in the distance. Gnomemeeting depends on pwlib with USE="ldap" .... But this cannot be resolved, due to missing Metadata.

Yes, I strongly think that we need a tracking for that sort of thing, as a first measure. There are more things we need, but.... ;)

However, I've worked quite a lot with designing distributions lately, and I can say that we -can- probably make something decent out of Gentoo as well when it comes to this. The question is, how to make it without removing the things that are good about Gentoo?

Now, I'm off from this apartment, to my new one, where I have no network. I'll be in Germany for a week soon ( WGT, here I come! ) And after that there will still be some issues with getting an ISP hookup. However, I'll be back.

more fads

seems klieber was interpreted by ramareth?
And ramereth chose to show himself off in all glory.
with another design by blackace to show him off for the weekend.
And of course, ferringb decided to share his portrait with us.

And it seems that cshields has visualized some more ;)

No more sober.p

Well, I've setup filtering to /dev/null all virus' caught on my @gentoo.org account. hopefully this will prevent the bloody flood of traffic that has been pounding my inbox over the last two days.

Bye Bye stats. :)

Follow the fad...

Well, Everybody else is doing it so I think I should do as well.

even ahni does it

Update:
I convinced cshields and blackace to give it a go as well.

Update: and now bug is there too.

virus assault

Well, I'm about to move and just then it starts. Normally I get a trickle of viruses ( 3.1/day, 288 from 1st of Feb -> Yesterday. ) but recently its been quite a few ( 148 since yesterday, 73.5/day, or 3 / hour average ).

I wait for the headlines.

And well, I'm moving. will be out of net. Appears that Phelia, our dear clusterfsck of a phone/ISP is banging themselves in the head with a mallet. They installed ethernet in the building I'm moving to. yey. They also offer xDSL up to 8mbit down / 1Mbit up.

The cable is capped at 500kbps.

Why? I just wonder.. WHY?

Chinstrap improvement

Well, after some talking with carpaski today, I've managed to script (partially at least) a way to put the metadata pickles on the servers for caching. This ought to make the binhosts easier to use in that it changes the download a bit.

Though the metadata pickle is 18Mb, compressed with gzip -9 . :-(