On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 7:40 PM Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> wrote:
Yes, Gentoo is notorious, and at least a few others exist.
okay i didnt come around too many linux distros i guess.
It's impractical because of compilation time, especially on old machines that would be left out by requiring newer CPU features. Many would not be even able to compile many packages at all due to insufficient memory.
well doesnt these whole arguments contradict the reasoning that it would be exactly the new fancy hardware owners of incapable to compile their stuff and optimize it to their needs and new(er) components? i think it would make sense to provide basic x86_64 binaries or a minimal os booting up stuff and the compile (not that often) the rest of stuff. or provide everything in the basic platform binaries and compile all updates patches etc only the files and packages that come as updates and renew themselves or as the user chooses so. are varios distros not as well trying to attempt to go for reproducible builds? this would need to implement the counter-checking on the users hardware anyways, or am i misunderstanding the reproducible-builds stuff? i think even (open)suse has some reproducible builds project if i am not mistaken. maybe i should take a look at gentoo then or at lfs. ty.