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> ./configure; make && make install This was what eventually lead me to Gentoo, if I'm going to have to compile some things why not all the things? And being
by bombcar 1y ago
> ./configure; make && make install
This was what eventually lead me to Gentoo, if I'm going to have to compile some things why not all the things?
And being able to install mpg123 without installing X, that was nice.
- ok_dad 1y agoI wish I spent that time compiling Gentoo a decade and a half ago farming bitcoins instead. What a waste of time!
- pipeline_peak 1y agoWould it be as fun though?
- ok_dad 1y agoYea I would have spent it on pizza.
- pipeline_peak 1y agoThat’s a lot of pizza.
- ok_dad 1y agoNot at 10k bitcoins per pizza.
- antod 1y agoI had the opposite, lots of that lead me to Debian instead. It wasn't so much the pain of compiling something once, but the ongoing pain of updating.
- guenthert 1y ago> if I'm going to have to compile some things why not all the things? Time? Compiling the kernel took 10m on a reasonable fast workstation-like PC. It could easily take three times as long on a more budget-friendly PC. And the kernel wasn't the largest package by any means. gcc (wants to be compiled three times) or, shudder, TeX? Very little benefit of compiling that oneself over and over again while a quite substantial cost.