Gentoo desktop?

[Christopher Friedt]

Since we've all been talking about gentoo's excessive CPU consumption on 
the global scale, and the concept of decentralized binary package 
repositories, does anyone have any decent idea of how such a thing would 
be modelled in a more-or-less secure fashion?

It would be nice to hear some ideas. Now is the time too, since the 
gentoo council might be reformed shortly.

~/Chris



Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2008 11:13 AM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> So where did you get your compiler from that you used to compile
>> everything?  Why did you trust that compiler?
> 
> The initial compiler for a Gentoo stage1 install is on the CD,
> distributed via the gentoo site (or torrent), and the hash matches
> what they say it should be.  That's trust.  However, it is not
> unlikely that the compiler has been trojaned.  Every resources can be
> hacked with adequate resources applied to such an effort of course...
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