4 Apr
2005
4 Apr
'05
9:58 a.m.
So Gentoo does not do binaries, other people may.
Gentoo does proivide binaries... called GRP's, but only for a base-kde install
f.ex. ... they don't provide every existing package in binary
OK, but you can always compile a different version
yourself. My question
is rather if it makes sense to ALWAYS compile from source.
I'm using gentoo since it's first version.
It is what I was always looking for.
So "does it make sense" ?... depends. If you want to have a system that runs
what YOU want, and has dependencies as YOU want it to... then yes, it makes
sense compiling everything from source, and using gentoo.
Gentoo has a perfect dependency management. There are standard dependecies,
and of course you may globaly remove or add some, or per package.
For a desktop system, it might sound annoying to compile everything from
source.
If you don't have any recent system (like a amd athlon xp 1800 or so), it
really is; but still, you can do updates during the night, or when you're at
work or so.
If you run it on servers, there's no problem at all... you have one machine
which does the compiling, and the others upgrade using binary packages from
that machine...
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regards,
Georges Toth