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minus-squareekZepp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 hours agoPlease, tell me they don’t have to compile everything.
minus-squarebdonvr@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 hours 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-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·edit-25 hours agoThey don’t have to. They GET to.
minus-squarenesc@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·5 hours agoThey actually don’t but it is the way programs are installed on gentoo by default.
minus-squaremkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoGentoo has optional binary packages now.
minus-squareDotcom@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·5 hours agoCompiling Firefox on my old ThinkPad took 9 hours
Please, tell me they don’t have to compile everything.
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.
They don’t have to. They GET to.
They actually don’t but it is the way programs are installed on gentoo by default.
Gentoo has optional binary packages now.
Compiling Firefox on my old ThinkPad took 9 hours