Re: Enabling Binaries by default in Stage3s

Le Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 11:04:46AM +0200, Emi a écrit :
> i think there is plenty of benefits to enabling binaries by default and no
> real downsides stage3s already come with binary packages like rust-bin and
> it could help dispel the myth that the entire point of gentoo is only about
> compiling everything for "performance"

As an outsider who only recently started a migration to Gentoo, I might have
done it much earlier if the existence of these binary packages was better known.
There are many reasons to chose Gentoo, and building ~everything from source is
far from being the only one.

I have a computer where Gentoo would be unusable if I could not rely on provided
binary packages, but at the same time I can not think of another distribution I
would be OK using in 2026.

Since any package where I set build flags distinct from the ones used for binary
packages are automatically built from source, I am a bit suprised to see so much
opposition for this suggestion to tweak the default setting for new install of
Gentoo (nothing would change for a system already running right now). I guess
there is some obvious downside that my limited experience with Gentoo is hiding
from me.

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