Nicholas Pappas wrote:
Hello all.
I'm having a crisis of conscious at the moment. I've been using Gentoo for a while and I really like it, but the simple truth is I don't need the granularity that compiling the source for each update provides. That, and I don't fool myself into pretending I know enough to tune my USE (and per package USE) variable to make the source version any better then your average prebuilt P4 package.
Are there mirrors that offer binary versions for the P4 for each package? I might have a few features built into apps that I might not need, or maybe have to juggle a few source distributions to make sure I get what I need, but a "mostly" pre-built repository would just make my updates so much better. :)
Nick
Binary Packages Break Gentoo ;) It's not feasable to add them, and looking at the current state of Linux it probably never will be <g>. Your toolchain is different from their toolchain, your libraries from their libraries, your system from their system. Since Binary Distribution X controls all the binaries on the box, they don't have these kinds of problems ( or as Rac would point out, much less so ). Since you have control over your box, perhaps your system decisions were different from the Binary Creators decision, and boom! -> bugs. The amount of development and support necessary to facilitate both is...beyond my comprehension as far as tracking bugs between all manner of packages...*shudders*
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