From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EkqyO-0000E7-5e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 22:44:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jB9MgaVh018769; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 22:42:36 GMT Received: from frappe.xs4all.nl (frappe.xs4all.nl [213.84.219.245]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jB9MZ7F7003644 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 22:35:07 GMT Received: from bull (bull.thuis [192.168.0.1]) by frappe.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E86B386C34 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 23:35:05 +0100 (CET) From: Gerhard Hoogterp To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde? Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 23:35:43 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <20051209222039.25958.qmail@web54611.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051209222039.25958.qmail@web54611.mail.yahoo.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512092335.43311@frappe.xs4all.nl> X-Archives-Salt: bb305eb7-87b6-4c36-ace5-b37d695bb2f1 X-Archives-Hash: 77676f09f26c45686399ac1699ca8920 On Friday 09 December 2005 23:20, Tom Smith wrote: > Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means that the software you > receive comes in the form of source code. It's up to you to install (which > includes compiling) the software with your specific preferences--this is > what makes Gentoo what it is. While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, there are already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, openoffice-bin. Mostly big packages which take some time to compile. So the idea of having a pre-compiled KDE isn't that alien to the world of gentoo.. Gerhard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list