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No, arch doesn't have anything remotely as use flags. But is 'gentoo-like' in that they serve upstream vanilla, without modifcations. I still prefer Gentoo's us
by PuercoPop 14y ago
No, arch doesn't have anything remotely as use flags. But is 'gentoo-like' in that they serve upstream vanilla, without modifcations. I still prefer Gentoo's use flags and tolerating the suckage that sometimes ocurrs when an emerge fails.
Someone should make a way to sharing ebuilds with the same useflags and CFLAGS(or at least compatible CFLAGS) so users could opt-in and 'crowdsource' the binary generation, as I feel gentoo with binary packages would be the best distro ever (I am aware portage supports binary files, it is just prohibitevly expensive to support all configurations.
- stefantalpalaru 14y agoGentoo doesn't have a fixation on vanilla packages. In fact it's quite common to see multiple patches going aside your average ebuild. The combination of USE flags / CFLAGS / LDFLAGS that make sense for individual users is so high that maintaining binary repos doesn't seem feasible.