Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe said: > 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.
Updating software is another good argument for a large binary package library. Updating xorg manually tends to be painful. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff