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Certainly not. Debian does binary distrubition and to do anything else is stupid.
I think you miss-presume that technology will stay at current levels and that capacity planning is done the week before instead of the decade before. Reminds me of Bill Gates, no one is going to need more than 640k, or IBM's forecast that the entire worlds computing would be done on one or two of their mainframes.
Good grief, try compiling kde each time you boot. Not going to happen.
Says you. I'm not even going to mention VLIW, concurrency booting in failover, control granularity on process exit, or the fact that the first time I compiled a kernel on a 486 it took 20 hr's. Want to bet there is one now that does it in 20 seconds and how long will it be before that is microseconds. What's stupid is not engaging possibilities.
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