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minus-squareekZepp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 month agoPlease, tell me they don’t have to compile everything.
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up49·1 month agoThey don’t have to. They GET to.
minus-squareDotcom@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·1 month agoCompiling Firefox on my old ThinkPad took 9 hours
minus-squarebdonvr@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·1 month agoThat’s kind of the point of Gentoo. Though it’s not as hard as it sounds, the package manager (emerge) pretty much does it for you. It just might take a while.
minus-squarepoinck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoPlease don’t be angry with me, but the package manager is called portage; emerge is just one commandline tool to interact with it.
minus-squarebdonvr@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoNo problem, tried Gentoo like once over 5 years ago. It was cool and fun but not a daily driver for me.
minus-squaremkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoGentoo has optional binary packages now.
minus-squareragas@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoWe don’t. We can decide between binary packages and compiling.
Please, tell me they don’t have to compile everything.
They don’t have to. They GET to.
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Compiling Firefox on my old ThinkPad took 9 hours
That’s kind of the point of Gentoo. Though it’s not as hard as it sounds, the package manager (emerge) pretty much does it for you. It just might take a while.
Please don’t be angry with me, but the package manager is called portage;
emergeis just one commandline tool to interact with it.No problem, tried Gentoo like once over 5 years ago. It was cool and fun but not a daily driver for me.
Gentoo has optional binary packages now.
We don’t. We can decide between binary packages and compiling.