Re: [gentoo-user] it keeps growing

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Hund wrote:
> On June 1, 2021 3:38:30 PM GMT+02:00, n952162 <n952162@web.de> wrote:
>> 337 packages this month to be updated.  It keeps getting more and more. 
>> Pretty soon, gentoo will overtake Bitcoin in energy use.
>>
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> One might then ask why you have so many packages? And why you have a computer that consumes enough power for you to be worried about it?
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> Hund
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I was thinking along the lines of how many packages even binary distros
have to update.  I've installed binary based distros before and when
updating those, there can be hundreds, several hundred, packages to
upgrade.  Thing is, those same packages exist in Gentoo.  If one has a
very similar set of packages installed, odds are, almost the same
packages will update in either a source based distro like Gentoo or in a
binary based distro.  The only difference is Gentoo compiles from source. 

If one is really concerned about compile times or the amount of power
needed to run Gentoo up to date, then one has to question not the
updates but why use Gentoo??  While some large packages are available in
binary, Firefox, Libreoffice etc, the vast majority of Gentoo is
compiled from source.  It's why most people use Gentoo, compile from
source with features set like you want.  If one is limited in hardware
or power, Gentoo may not be a good option. 

Makes one think.

Dale

:-)  :-)