Yes it is but that's not the point he's trying to make.
i get the point, I also get that to compile by source in leu of pkg it curtails the software to the system that is running the software. ie
the
i915kms driver. It having to be build from scratch and not from pkg install on upgrading from 12 -> 12.1 .
The ports get compiled on someone else Computer and it gets build in a wide generalized array of pc types, (I assume), because that would be the best way to do mass produce software in order to try and make the software as compatible as possible to everything out there that is running FreeBSD, (etc..).
but as we see this is not always the case so one needs to compile it using ports in leu of using pkg to install it.
I prefer to use pkg over ports, and port only when I feel it is needed, and not all software needs to be compiled from source on ones own system in order to get it to work properly. I'd think this is where gentoo fails in its conception, having the user have t build everything from scratch all of the time for everything? but that is "Linux/GNU" , I am just pointing out the ideology and using Geetoo to do so. Because its entire system is build off that ideology.
Having binary packages to install is faster over all causing it so one does not have to live by Geetoo I got way too much time on my hands so I'll just compile everything from source at the time
I need it then put myself into a wait state until the software has completed compiling before I can actually use it, might as well go shopping, or take a nap while I am waiting for it to compete ideology.
That ideology collapses in on itself. Because it is not absolutely needed to compile every peice of software on ones own system to get it to work on that same system.
