On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 04:29:08PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote
> Peter via Dng said on 28 Dec 2024 10:41:21 -0700
>
> >What are the principal aspects against Gentoo for you? Ongoing
> >requirements of maintenance time?
>
> As a guy who thoroughly tested Gentoo and Funtoo as possible escape
> mechanisms from SystemD in 2014, let me answer that:
>
> * Compiling every update takes a long time.

And now it's getting worse because every man and his dog is
re-inventing the app-building-wheel. In addition to spending time
compiling applications, I'm spending time compiling umpteen tools to
compile applications. Building gcc is one thing. But now I'm spending
time to compile the latest version of llvm, and clang, and meson, and
python, yada, yada, yada before I can begin to use them to compile
applications.

In most distros, you get the finished application, so you don't need
to build the tools that build the applications.

--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@???>
There are 2 types of people in this world
1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data