I mean it’s had -k/-K since mid 2000s from what I remember but it’s changed
Portage has supported binary packages since forever, back in 2012 I had some binary packages on my system, I clearly remember because it was a pain in the ass to compile certain things, for those I installed the binary version. It’s like Debian supporting source packages, it’s been there since forever but people don’t know about it.
Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TMP_NKcYUEoM7kXg4qYe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The point is that they have recently focused on better binary package availability. Sure they always had support for binary packages but most software needed to be compiled.