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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:10:40PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
> > I keep thinking about gentoo, since I really still like freebsd better and
> > gentoo reminds me of the freebsd ports collection. There are days I miss
> > from my old job which involved a lot of FreeBSD work ...
> 
> Gentoo and FreeBSD ports are both getting to be a little ridiculous.
> I mean, really, why should I have to compile Firefox in order to install
> it on my laptop?  Let someone else waste the hours of cpu time to
> compile it and the libraries it rides in on.  All I want is a binary.
 
> A minute vs. an hour is significant.

Then why not take the binary packages from the package build cluster?