Hi Michael, Michael van Elst wrote:
you nail it.. actually older or slower systems need binary things. Imagine compiling everything on an Raspberry!What else? Self-compiling on a system you already consider outdated?:) Binary packages are more important on systems that we consider old, doesn't have to be a VAX.
The same goes for older laptops, embedded systems, etc, etcI see that on SPARC systems where we don't have many packages and building stuff myself needs quite some time.
Riccardo