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What do you mean by "source-based distribution"?

• riquito 6y ago
  One without packages shipped as prebuilt binaries: Gentoo [1] would be a good example. You compile every binary yourself (sometime you can use prebuilt binaries for the biggest software, if you are so inclined and the distro allows it). [1] https://www.gentoo.org/ https://www.gentoo.org/
  • lordleft 6y ago
    Doesn't arch use AUR / pacman for binaries / package management? I wasn't aware that like Gentoo you had to compile most software
    • ddevault 6y ago
      No, he's wrong. Arch Linux is primarily a binary distribution.
  • danShumway 6y ago
    My Arch install doesn't compile anything locally unless I'm installing from AUR. Maybe it's doing it behind the scenes or something, but I'm doubtful, because otherwise I think my upgrades would take a lot longer.