James Olin Oden wrote:
>
> I think the salient points are:
>
> * RedHat distros today don't self host.
> * Some customers desire that the distro could self host.
>
> Maybe the number of customers that desire this are too small to worry
> about, versus the cost of meeting their perceived needs. Maybe,
> solving the problem is really hard. None of that changes the above
> two facts; it only places them in a context.
Do you know how the other distributions handle this? Obviously, gentoo
was designed with end-user source rebuilds in mind and the *bsd's got it
right eons ago, but what about debian, ubuntu, etc.
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Les Mikesell
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