Gentoo desktop?

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Jan 21, 2008 4:54 AM, Christopher Friedt <cfriedt-u6hQ6WWl8Q3d1t4wvoaeXtBPR1lH4CV8 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

Take a tip from Debian and APT.  Read the specs.  Basically, the
default install would utilize GPG keys for binary distribution.  Or
you can add GPG keys later, but that is perhaps dangerous.  It has
already been done before, so this is nothing new.  Is drobbins sick of
m$ yet :-)
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