On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 07:44:32 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > It seemed at one time a year or so ago that gentoo's longevity was > questionable. (Possibly my own mis-perception)
The discussions about Gentoo's imminent demise are an annual tradition. > For the OP, a few posters have mentioned that under gentoo, every > thing is compiled from scratch, but it was not made clear that it > happens again and again at most updates. If the OP had read so little about Gentoo that they haven't gleaned that much, it certainly is not the distro for them. > No one has made clear that there is a very HUGE amount of time sunk > into compiling absolutely everything. > A single update, if one lets updating slip a bit, can literally take > days to compile. And more days to reconfigure so that everything works > again. Is the time it takes the computer (not you) to compile updates that much of an issue. Unless you desperately need some feature only in the new release, you can carry on using the computer while it compiles the new versions for you. As for reconfiguring, that has nothing to do with whether the packages were compiled on your computer or a distro's build server, but configs rarely change that significantly. -- Neil Bothwick Love is grand. Divorce is a few grand more.
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