Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: >While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, there are >already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, openoffice-bin. Mostly big >packages which take some time to compile. So the idea of having a >pre-compiled KDE isn't that alien to the world of gentoo.. > >Gerhard > > And to think I still compile Open Office. I even compiled it on a 400Mhz rig once. Does anyone type in a command then take a nap? I'm disabled and do get some rest but I do wake up on occasion. LOL
Gentoo is for those who want to compile from source. Having the option for binaries may be OK, but I doubt there is enough people going to use it for all the effort. Somebody has to still wait on it to finish compiling. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
