On Mar 11, 2013 9:20 AM, "Lonnie Olson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Arch isn't a source based distro like Gentoo. It is a lot more > "hands-on" than others like Fedora and Debian though. No compiling, > just more involved. > Well, the core packages for Arch are available as binary packages, but a lot of things you might want are in a separate source-package-only repository. And I think you can get binary packages for Gentoo as well, so they're not terribly different. For a really customized image, I would recommend cross-compiling with the Yocto Project tools, because compiling things on a wimpy ARM with a slow disk is a waste of time. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
