Dan Simmons@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show to Linux and Tech News@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish · 10 months agoGentoo goes Binary! – Gentoo Linuxwww.gentoo.orgexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down11cross-posted to: linux@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanslinux@lemmy.mlhackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up120arrow-down1external-linkGentoo goes Binary! – Gentoo Linuxwww.gentoo.orgDan Simmons@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show to Linux and Tech News@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square3fedilinkcross-posted to: linux@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanslinux@lemmy.mlhackernews@derp.foo
minus-squareruckblack@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·10 months agoI thought the whole point of using Gentoo was like for those 12 people globally who want to compile their entire system
minus-squareLeo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoThat’s still the main purpose. The binary packages won’t have any special sauce in them, so no benefit for people already compiling. This move is mostly for people that want Gentoo on less-than-powerful systems.
I thought the whole point of using Gentoo was like for those 12 people globally who want to compile their entire system
That’s still the main purpose. The binary packages won’t have any special sauce in them, so no benefit for people already compiling. This move is mostly for people that want Gentoo on less-than-powerful systems.