Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Re: leaving a mark
From:    Timex
Date:    Tue Nov 10, 2026 20:04

@VIA: VINTAGE
-=> phigan wrote to rapler <=-

 ph> It's probably an unpopular opinion, but if you're going to go as far as
 ph> using gentoo, you may as well just get all the source yourself to
 ph> compile. With gentoo, you're getting the source packages from gentoo...
 ph> why not just get it from "the source" ? :). I like the idea behind
 ph> gentoo, but it'd be better if it grabbed source packages from the
 ph> official distribution sites. Which I know isn't really feasible with so
 ph> many different packages, because you know at some point it will break.

.....because if they did that, they'd have Slackware.

I cut my eye teeth on Slackware, back with kernel version 0.99pl10.  I've done
exactly what you're suggesting, and quite frankly it was a pain even then.
There's a reason they call it "Dependency Hell".

At the risk of saying something you're already aware of, the point of Gentoo
recompiling anything wasn't to keep things current (although that does happen),
as much as optimizing the binaries for the system they will be expected to run
on.  The original binaries are only supposed to be enough to get on started.


.... Genius is the capacity of evading hard work. -- Hubbard
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