Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
By: Accession to DaiTengu on Sat Jun 08 2024 08:04 am
> D> Fun fact, Gentoo now offers binary packages. This is a thing they did
> D> recently.
>
> I take it you mean, "officially", or something? I remember there being side
> projects that tried to introduce it, especially when Sabayon Linux was
> popular. But to be honest, Gentoo is Gentoo. Binary packages kind of defeats
> the entire purpose and meaning of Gentoo. :)
Distributions and Operating Systems that have an integrated way of dealing with
both binary packages and source ports are the best man-made thing ever, I swear
.
One of the reasons why I think the BSDs rock is precisely because you can instal
l binary packages if you are in a hurry, but if you want to install something af
ter adding a custom patch yourself or do some nifty tricks, you can use the port
s trees and build a package (with its dependencies) tailored to your system.
In fact, one of the big pluses of Slackware is that it has ports-like tools that
allow you to build your stuff as you see fit without needing to go the wacko-cr
azy way of building absolutely everything from the ground up :-p
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