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THis is not the issue, I think. See: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/P...

The problem is that it is a giant codebase, you need to compile C++, Rust for hours. Even pulling the latest code is an ordeal.

It's not feasible on lowly workstations and garden variety cheap cloud VM builders, the performance is just crap.

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I was speaking more to the general case of projects with small bus factors for deploying. And slow is moistly irrelevant to the point, which is making something possible which largely wasn't before.

When I ran Gentoo on my laptop, emerging Firefox took far longer than compiling even the Kernel. Around 90 minutes, I think.

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