4 Apr
2005
4 Apr
'05
4:22 p.m.
Right, it's a kick-start for new installs. But
only at each release,
i.e. twice a year.
they do new profile-releases quarterly...
What I understand from your arguments is that
compiling from source is
necessary because Gentoo is a meta-distribution, and that they couldn't
provide binaries for each and every possible situation. This is the
price to pay if you want to assemble a distro yourself.
Am I right in saying so?
I don't know for sure, but I think they don't do regular grp updates simply
because they don't have the ressources to do that for every platform.
But, there are many reasons why they don't or shouldn't do grp's more
oftenly...
There have been a lot of discussions regarding that...
The gentoo philosophy is about the right to choose... you define how your
gentoo distro should look like...
But it sure would be possible to share binaries...
I know a lot of gentoo users, we do share binaries...and it's working
great :-)
--
regards,
Georges Toth