That's been my experience with MacPorts, which does have some binary packages, b...

		_delirium on Jan 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spotify position in support of systemd in the defa... That's been my experience with MacPorts, which does have some binary packages, but much lower coverage than a distribution like Debian, so fallback building from source is common. It can be really annoying when you just want to install some utility and it takes literally 3 or 4 hours to install, because somewhere in the dependency or build-dependency chain is some big and slow-to-compile thing like GTK, X.org, or a newer GCC.

Gosh, you're reminding me of those days of compiling KDE or Firefox on an old box under Gentoo.

I think I still wake up in a cold sweat from time to time. :)