Let’s get grandma running Gentoo!
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muleunchangedstarved@programming.dev 1 year agoif users compile the program on their computers (like AUR) then no need to download gigabytes, you just need the source code.
mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 year ago
Gentoo builds take a long time. Plus hard to use the computer during that time.
(I may be presuming as the comment above yours is about OS wide. And this was how Gentoo handled things.)
exi@feddit.de 1 year ago
But it’s a gigantic waste of energy and time when you could just download a 2mb package and be done with it.
Kache@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That route already exists today as “the web”, where the “latest” JavaScript source is downloaded and JIT-ed by browsers. It’s also not a great example of stable and secure software.