>These patterns are mostly borrowed from BSD family and Gentoo Linux. No. Stop blaming your horrible distros on BSDs. All the BSDs provide binary packages an

>These patterns are mostly borrowed from BSD family and Gentoo Linux. No. Stop blaming your horrible distros on BSDs. All the BSDs provide binary packages and encourage users to use them. Typing "make install" and watching the build script compile and package an identical binary package as the one on the public FTP servers is not learning anything, and does not make your system "advanced". Exposing the package build system to users lets them build custom packages when needed. It makes absolutely no sense to then say "we won't provide any binary packages for you" and force everyone to always compile everything themselves.