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MatriXNet
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 15, 2002 9:58 pm    Post subject: Binary Binary Binary... Reply with quote
There needs to be an option with emerge to install binary prebuilt packages.. your package system owns but it takes forever to compile the biggies like GCC and XFree... i know this is supposed to be source :oops: but could you possibly add like an einstall and make it a hybrid SRC / BIN distro? that would make EVERYONE happy :D
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2002 2:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
possibly... but the idea with gentoo is precisely the capability to build stuff from source when you have the ability to do so
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2002 4:13 am    Post subject: Re: Binary Binary Binary... Reply with quote
MatriXNet wrote:
There needs to be an option with emerge to install binary prebuilt packages.. your package system owns but it takes forever to compile the biggies like GCC and XFree...


Remember that as you are building the system you can build your own binary packages at the same time, just pass --buildpkg to emerge.

Then if you need to reinstall, you'll have all you binary packages in /usr/portage/packages/All and you can reinstall from there.
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