Man updating packages by compiling them is so stupid
Oh look 15 updated packages from AUR
I always go with the binary version if it's available in the AUR, ain't nobody got time for that.
I mean yes if time is an issue, but compiled code on your own hardware is specifically tuned to your machine, some people want that tiny tweak of performance and stability.
I use both for different purposes. Gentoo’s feature flags are the reason I wait for compiles, but only for computers a touch the keyboard with. Everything else gets Arch.
would you mind elaborating on the benefits? like what does one actually gain in a real-world scenario by having the software tuned to a specific machine?
disk space aside, given the sheer amount of packages that come with a distro, are we talking about 30% less CPU and RAM usage (give or take), or is it more like squeezing out the last 5% of possible optimization?
Special Fuck You to:
- clang
- LibreOffice
- Firefox
- llvm
I only use dwm, so no idea how long it takes to compile KDE or
GentooGnome.Everything else is so quick. Just those four take 20-30 minutes each.
Before I had a proper internet connection (had to ask permission to borrow a dial up account) I bought a magazine that had a picture of a cow on it saying that Larry the cow was different. It was a DVD image of the stage one mirror of this new fangled Gentoo thing.
Learnt from the magazine how to install a bootloader and so on and then "bravely" typed
emerge worldinto the terminal after configuring the list of all the packages I wanted. Including a full desktop (KDE I think but may have been Gnome). And Firefox. And Open Office. And some multimedia stuff I don't remember.On a Pentium ii.
Took a week before I could do the next step :D
Might I add:
- GCC
- webkit-gtk
You forgot rust
qt as well
Assuming it actually compiled. Otherwise there are even more smug looks.
I am rolling a few Gentoo VM’s these days and it’s really not that bad to compile things these days and I am on an old ass (10 year) dual Xeon setup. I remember X taking a few days to a week to compile back in the 2000’s
Oh man, just today I was messing around with flatpak, where I tried building webkit2, which took ages, or almost an hour (to be more specific).
And I was thinking to myself if that's what Gentoo feels like.
I usually compile with
--quiet-build=y, it doesn't have to be configures and makefiles blasting into a shell window the whole time. On the rare occasions where a build fails there's still the log in/var/tmp/portage/....void linux
Linux voided
I use Arch btw.
