1. Every release has a big selection of precompiled GRP packages. 2. http://chinstrap.alternating.net has the same, and is kept up to date.
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 02:12 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > 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 > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
