Jim - Don't believe all those gentoo ricers out there who are quite prepared
to spend hours recompiling everything for 0.01% performance improvement.
Is performance why they do it? I thought it was more for the flexibility: You only compile in features of packages that you need, so, for example, you can run xemacs without requiring some obscure Asian-font-rendering library (libcanna?) that you will never use anyway.
Binary distros, on the other hand, compile with nearly every option plus the kitchen sink turned on, just in case somebody needs it, so to install xemacs, you need a handful of libraries that are (most probably) useless to you.
BTW, I don't use gentoo. Cheers, Carl.
