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Because building from source is extremely time/CPU consuming and also unreliable. Time is valuable. In my last Gentoo attempt, I had to manually fix a few build
by brucethemoose2 3y ago
Because building from source is extremely time/CPU consuming and also unreliable. Time is valuable. In my last Gentoo attempt, I had to manually fix a few build recipes before I threw in the towel.
This also means "riskier" methods (like LTO) have to be omitted by default.
Gentoo is great for libre software, security, manual patches, embedded computing and such. But for pure desktop performance, the Clear Linux way is best: aggressive compilation flags/libraries, tested by the package maintainers, shipped in 3-4 tiers. And as the Clear Linux devs said, most of the native instructions dont even matter, as the compilers can't use them.