Says the guy who never had to compile anything. With AUR: read pkgbuild and any other relevant files (usually none), run makepkg. Without AUR: download sources, untar, read INSTALL, or README, or readme, etc, run ./configure --halp, check which config options you probably need, make, it doesn't work, find which library you're missing, download library sources, untar, read INSTALL...
Also even when it isn't on AUR I always create a package because pacman -Rsc libnigger will remove it for sure, but I'm bound to forget some file or another if I just throw it into /usr/local/ like a retard.
What is the point of Arch and Gentoo?
John Wood
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Jack Phillips
It sounds like you use AUR because you don't know enough to correctly install software from source on your l33t distro for pro kernel hackers. It was already my mental picture of Arch users so I'm amused.
Christopher Cox
Daily reminder USE flags and configuration options can result in faster software
Luis Perry
a base OpenBSD system is a fully-usable system that really doesn't require you to install many packages to get a normalfag pc.
Josiah Adams
I still use gentoo because its no systemd and mature distro(as in number of packages, searchable online support, stability)
I also appreciate having the source code of all my software so I can check how many LOC there are and make small changes that for some strange reason are not possible through configs. The 9999 versions of packages are also a nice way to install the newest version of software from git.
Being able to do use flags optimizations and kernel customization is nice flexibility to have but I dont see the need for saving disc space and barely noticeable speed gains.
If not for the lack of maturity crux and void linux seem like better options. They seem to offer choice of whether to compile from source or install binary, so can safe time when compile is not needed.
crux is more interresting because of it's focus on simplicity and void is interresting because of it's simple fast init runit and using musl which is more minimal than glibc.
Cooper Moore
This is a bot right? Nobody can be this autistic.
Aaron Smith
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Gavin Stewart
Linux is for virgins. If you want something done use an actual OS.
Asher Myers
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