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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 00:10:10 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Oh my. Gentoo Linux officially goes Binary! https://www.gentoo.org/news/2023/12/29/Gentoo-binary.html This is not an April Fool's joke. It is real. What do you think? Would you use binary only Gentoo?

   • Leszek Lesner (leszek@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 00:18:58 JST Leszek Lesner

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     @nixCraft Wow that takes away a bit of the magic. But can understand it. I think ArchLinux with that concept stole Gentoos mojo.

   • Elias Probst (eliasp@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 01:08:48 JST Elias Probst

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     @nixCraft this doesn't change anything regarding the fundamentals of #Gentoo, binhost support has been there forever and it's just that they're having now official binaries, but doesn't take away anything regarding the capabilities to build packages and this will still happen as soon as anything regarding a user's configuration doesn't match (CFLAGS, USE flags, ...) what's provided as #binaries.

   • Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle (lffontenelle@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 02:18:12 JST Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle

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     @nixCraft I stopped using Gentoo ages ago because I did want to have to compile everything. But also I had got into Gentoo because of the compilation…

   • Emilio Pavia (emix@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 16:00:23 JST Emilio Pavia

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     @nixCraft I’ve always mixed sources and binaries back in 2004. I have never built OpenOffice from sources on Gentoo