On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 07:31:46PM +0200, cagsm wrote:
I really miss the open source aspect and the full(?) availability of source code in this discussion here. Did any of the major(?) distros out there ever go down the road of fully make their users compile their stuff on their own machines or similar idea? I wonder why anyone
Yes, Gentoo is notorious, and at least a few others exist.
needs to provide any such stuff as a certain cpu set at all, why not allow for some basic set of packages that boot up the machine and then compile the rest for the specified machine or its specialties such as instruction sets and more. wouldnt this be an option for opensuse as well? i think i remember such thing as linux from scratch, but i never looked into this. would this be such a distro? why is nobody(?) or very few do this? am i missing anything here? ty.
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. Thanks Michal