gentoo.devangels.org

None of the in-site links are working for me.

Just out of curiosity, what's the point of hosting binaries for Gentoo? I thought its main advantage was building everything from source -- or are the binaries you're hosting binary by necessity (closed source)?

Gentoo has plenty of advantages, the easeness of making binhosts or rsync servers are of it's flexibility.
To me, some of the advantage of using emerge to compile your sources is compiling binaries for your processor architecture and to personnalise configuration of compilation (USE).

When i make an install on a machine which cpu is the same that the one used for compiling packages on the binhost and that USE flags i need is similar to the one used for compiling, it is really fast to get a good optimised system running, much faster than emerging system and apps alone.

About advantages of portages, there are many other, it's much simpler to make an ebuild than to make a deb or rpm. You can apply patches very easely with ebuilds and make security patched system running, use differrent compiling profiles for differrent systems.

You can join the binhost if you want to have a backup of your packages and configuration file.
I am testing an amd64 set of packages i made easely, getting xfce, apache, php, mysql, open office running optimised in a couple of hours.
Better users of gentoo can take advantages of this with extra security.

PS : I still need to clarify quality of sources and compilation, precise using binhosts is at your own risk etc ... and provide sources of binaries to respect GPL license, however, what do you think of the usage of punbb on this site please ?