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What could your distro learn from another distro?
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Gentoo - patience.
But seriously. With the
USEflags, compiler options, you can understand software more from a developer's point of view.You can try to optimize software for your hardware.
Fully explore the
configureoptions. With a binary package you have no control.How are those new binary applications coming along? is it feasible to mix. I don't want to compile everything.
Quite useful if you don't mess with the
USE. I can be mixed.I recently tested the binary option, I set desired profile (
eselect profile list) and it just worked™.Some applications still require manual compilation, e.g.
llvm,gcc,systemd.