Re: Enabling Binaries by default in Stage3s

On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 12:45:23PM +0200, Gil wrote:
> On 26 08 10 11:04, Emi wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > As discussed in #gentoo-wiki, i think it would be a good idea to enable
> > getbinpkg in the stage3s that support binaries by default,
> > this change would make things easier and simpler for new users and users of
> > the official binhosts and it would be a simple change.
> 
> Hi Emi and all
> 
> I am reluctant to agree with this.
> As this would just force me ( and all other non binhost users ), to have to go and
> manually disable binhosts.
> 
> Likely most users would be annoyed at this, at least as far as I am aware.
> ( This is gentoo after all ).
> 
> Regards
> -Gil

Same here. If I wanted to use a binary distribution out of the box I would not
be using Gentoo. It's nice to provide bin packages as an option, but it should
not be the default at any stage.

Zoltan

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