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minus-squareekZepp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·17 hours agoPlease, tell me they don’t have to compile everything.
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up33·edit-216 hours agoThey don’t have to. They GET to.
minus-squarenesc@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·17 hours agoThey actually don’t but it is the way programs are installed on gentoo by default.
minus-squareDotcom@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·16 hours agoCompiling Firefox on my old ThinkPad took 9 hours
minus-squarebdonvr@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up4·14 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-squaremkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 hours agoGentoo has optional binary packages now.
Please, tell me they don’t have to compile everything.
They don’t have to. They GET to.
They actually don’t but it is the way programs are installed on gentoo by default.
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.
Gentoo has optional binary packages now.