Quoth Markus Wichmann on Thu, Nov 20 2014 21:18 +0100:
sabotage/Morpheus/sta.li: All great ideas, but since they're lacking the sheer manpower the major distributions boast, they can't possibly have the same library of packages.
After running Slackware for a while, I've come to think this is not a flaw, and maybe even an advantage. Compiling good software is not much more complex or time-consuming than installing a binary, and the advantages of a custom build are great. None of this applies to insane software. (I do not wish to recompile libwebkitgtk _ever again_, for example.) But aside from speeding up fresh installs, software too awful to compile is the only good argument for a large binary package library. -- Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
