Upgrade using binary packages?

[angryfirelord]

I'm interesting in installing Sabayon again, but one thing that really takes up a lot of time for me is all of the compiling, especially if I'm upgrading an entire Sabayon install. I know FreeBSD provides an updated repository for using binaries, but does Gentoo/Sabayon have something similar?

[rsambuca]

Gentoo has binaries for some Desktop Environments, OpenOffice, Firefox, etc.

[trimeta]

Also, I believe Sabayon has full binary package repositories, though since I've never used Sabayon I can't speak for their quality. With vanilla Gentoo, a couple of packages have a second, "-bin" version; this is usually the exact binary from upstream, though, not the results you'd get from compiling locally with all USE flags enabled.

[angryfirelord]

Thanks for the replies. :) It seems that the Sabayon team is working on a binary repository for updates.

http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=Entropy