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That's been my experience with MacPorts, which does have some binary packages, but much lower coverage than a distribution like Debian, so fallback building fro
by _delirium 13y ago
That's been my experience with MacPorts, which does have some binary packages, but much lower coverage than a distribution like Debian, so fallback building from source is common. It can be really annoying when you just want to install some utility and it takes literally 3 or 4 hours to install, because somewhere in the dependency or build-dependency chain is some big and slow-to-compile thing like GTK, X.org, or a newer GCC.
- Zancarius 13y agoGosh, you're reminding me of those days of compiling KDE or Firefox on an old box under Gentoo. I think I still wake up in a cold sweat from time to time. :)