Source tarballs are often super sensitive to environment and distro such that you’d need to modify them to work on the specific distro/with the specific dep versions and so at that point, just precompile binaries?
It’s also much quicker for the end user, nobody wants to wait 5-60 minutes for their package to install unless you’re making modifications to it
lol if I go to my work pc at 9am and run winget to update all my installed stuff, it’ll maybe be done by 11am. Sometimes not. And it’s not even compiling anything
Source tarballs are often super sensitive to environment and distro such that you’d need to modify them to work on the specific distro/with the specific dep versions and so at that point, just precompile binaries?
It’s also much quicker for the end user, nobody wants to wait 5-60 minutes for their package to install unless you’re making modifications to it
glances at my Gentoo system uhhh, do USE flags count as making modifications?
Considering that I had to change them any time I wanted to install anything, I personally wouldn’t consider them a modification.
lol if I go to my work pc at 9am and run winget to update all my installed stuff, it’ll maybe be done by 11am. Sometimes not. And it’s not even compiling anything