What the fellow prior to me said (although I've never used binary packages via portage)AND it only took me about 12 hours to compile the remainder (X, Gnome (you only need 1 DE for crying out loud), etc);).
Ultimately, recompiling from source kind of frees you from whoever did the original compilation. I recall the days when I used Fedora where some people forgot to compile in the option I wanted to use specifically or screwed up the RPM permissions.
It wouldn't be the first time I've had to recompile something on someone else's box because their distro default binary didn't do something it should've.
A matter of taste, my dear friend. Gentoo is about choice, not speed (regardless of what the kiddies might tell you). The package CD is there to speed up your install - but eventually you're gonna recompile sooner or later.
A basic install (stage 3) takes around 2-3 hours (the 20 or so mins an emerge sync and an hour and half plus kernel compile take when doing so off a cdrom) tops on a relatively new computer.
While annoying, it's certainly not mind bending to do.
www.stolemy.com
Found at a PC world news. here.
Hum, thought ppl might find this uswful/interesting. (most likely this has been posted before me... but there are like 5 million posts, gaaaah! Forgive me)
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What the fellow prior to me said (although I've never used binary packages via portage)AND it only took me about 12 hours to compile the remainder (X, Gnome (you only need 1 DE for crying out loud), etc) ;).
Ultimately, recompiling from source kind of frees you from whoever did the original compilation. I recall the days when I used Fedora where some people forgot to compile in the option I wanted to use specifically or screwed up the RPM permissions.
It wouldn't be the first time I've had to recompile something on someone else's box because their distro default binary didn't do something it should've.
A matter of taste, my dear friend.
Gentoo is about choice, not speed (regardless of what the kiddies might tell you). The package CD is there to speed up your install - but eventually you're gonna recompile sooner or later.
A basic install (stage 3) takes around 2-3 hours (the 20 or so mins an emerge sync and an hour and half plus kernel compile take when doing so off a cdrom) tops on a relatively new computer.
While annoying, it's certainly not mind bending to do.
www.stolemy.com Found at a PC world news. here. Hum, thought ppl might find this uswful/interesting. (most likely this has been posted before me... but there are like 5 million posts, gaaaah! Forgive me)