Comment by pjmlp

1 month ago

After driving Gentoo for a while back in 2004, I decided I don't really want to wait compiling for everything.

For those that don't want to wait compiling for everything - https://www.calculate-linux.org/

It's still 100% pure Gentoo (and actually these days even vanilla Gentoo itself offers precompiled binaries) so you still can compile things in rare cases that binary isn't already compiled with use/config that you want.

That’s mostly why I build system images in CI; my slowest builds (qemu user mode emulation of aarch64 for e.g. raspberry pi boards) can take multiple days so I just declared myself a 1 week window between updates and then just pull in the changes via rsync. I even boot the images with qemu as part of the testing cycle. At some point I might try building and hosting prebuilt bins like gentoo does now, I don’t use those though because I explicitly want to build everything from source.