Has Linux gone binary?

[frank paxton iii]

PLEASE don't throw me in that tarball (briar) patch ! / frankenstein

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 09:28, Duane Attaway wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Andrew Bates wrote:
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> > I assume you all notice a trend that has begun...
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> > people are asking about where to get an rpm.. rather than a source.. and
> > they are asking about certain distributions... has the idea of compiling
> > your own optimized binary gone down the proverbial toliet? Let alone
> > figuring out what libraries are needed? Or do users just not realize
> > that Linux is Linux?
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> Quite the opposite.  I wouldn't worry about it.
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> Gentoo lists 4731 source tarballs directly from the original authors in
> their distribution tree at my last count (8.4GBytes!)  A single command
> line can compile all or part of those into your system, depending on what
> you want.  I compile everything and never have to worry about finding
> libraries or needing to find files.
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> I hear debian also manages dependancies automatically.
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