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> Well, the FreeBSD ports collection basically gives you the means to
> rebuild the programs you want to *if* you want to, and then it gives the
> FreeBSD release engineers the means to fill the installation CD's with
> lots of - and here's a novel idea, at least to some aforementioned Linux
> distro maintainers, it would seem - *binary packages* built from those
> self-same ports :)
> ...
I think the Gentoo folks have gotten the hint about that and provide for
binary packages if you want them:
From: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/philosophy.xml
At around the time Gentoo was born, the thing that got in
the way was the lack of an easy way to build packages from
source, to a user's specifications. Currently, we've done
that very well, but what we haven't done very well is support
pre-built packages, even though Portage has supported building
binary packages almost since its inception. So we are doing
that now.
I haven't found the compiling much of an irritation and use Gentoo not
because of the micro-optimizations (which get lost in the noise, IMO) but
because it's got a fairly sane upgrade mechanism and customizing it only
rarely makes me feel like stabbing myself in the eyes -- unlike the
previous distribution I used up until a few years ago, Red Hat.
But I think that all packaging systems suck in their own way. We just get
used to them.
Chris
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