2021-10-27 02:01:13 EEST | back | home | git
+Mainly because of tikarability, security and customisation, binary distros +don't give you as much control over your system customisability, +for example some software might be compiled with features you don't want +in the kernel and the source based one just requires some feature disabled +so you could get it, with binary ones you cannot. For example if you wanted to get +vim with no python support in source based distros you'd just disable it +where in binary ones you cannot and vise versa. I also like the customisation +of it because some packages won't work without systemD because of the +way they were built. Also if the binary built has some odd memory leak +you can't make it go away until the next update, but if you compile everything +then your binary will be unique. And few more things, like optimisation, +every binary you build even better if you pass certain flags to it.
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