Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> what are the use cases for binary packages?

Apart from those already mentioned by Chris, I use FEATURES=buildpkg to
be able to recover from a catastrophic experiment with a package's
content, for being able to quickly reinstall it. Although it's lame,
it's pretty easy to run `emerge -K foo` to get vanilla config files.

Cheers,
-jkt

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