Ok, I can understand the willingness to promote your favored distro, but this just makes no sense. Gentoo is nice as distro, I use it myself on my workstation. The problem here is that it opens up a whole new realm of possible things to break, which is exactly what you don't want in a server environment.
Example, php exploit comes out, everyone must upgrade their version to be safe. However, the build environment on your machine does not recognize the fact that you can build shared objects, everything gets built static, and there is not module for apache to load.
Hence the use of binary releases, already compiled correctly, you just have to place it in the proper directories. No model is perfect in respect to trying to keep things stable. Gentoo just doesn't have it yet.
From the way you wrote that, I can't tell if your really serious, or it's a bad joke...
BTW - Releases for architectures other than x86 are already optimized.
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Ok, I can understand the willingness to promote your favored distro, but this just makes no sense. Gentoo is nice as distro, I use it myself on my workstation. The problem here is that it opens up a whole new realm of possible things to break, which is exactly what you don't want in a server environment.
Example, php exploit comes out, everyone must upgrade their version to be safe. However, the build environment on your machine does not recognize the fact that you can build shared objects, everything gets built static, and there is not module for apache to load.
Hence the use of binary releases, already compiled correctly, you just have to place it in the proper directories. No model is perfect in respect to trying to keep things stable. Gentoo just doesn't have it yet.
From the way you wrote that, I can't tell if your really serious, or it's a bad joke...
BTW - Releases for architectures other than x86 are already optimized.