> So far I've spent a very lot of time waiting for something
> to finish emerging. � It seems like things like Mozilla
> take an extrordinary long time.
OK, mozilla is a strage example.
OTOH, I really like Gentoo, but certainly not for compiling
everything by myself. I'd really like to see some precompiled
packages.
Most of the Gentoo Gurus will blame me because selfcompiling
is one of the major differences of the Gentoo system.
But the Gentoo guidelines clearly state that Gentoo is
designed the way that the user has choices. And one of the
choices could be: precompiled packages.
I see no reason why precompiled packages with all available
use flags set shouldn't be possible. In my opinion, emerging
everything by myself is simply a waste of time and electric
power. Gentoo is a really great distribution, the best I ever
have used, but waiting for emerging something can and should
be avoided.
This is not a complaint at all. I'm very graceful that I'm
allowed to use something like Gentoo, but there are simply
resons which make me thinging about using a binary based
distribution from time to time.
No flaming please, I'll not take part in it ;-) .
Best regards
ce
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