{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Bit Shift (bitshift)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-13 12:03:10 UTC","author_name":"Bit Shift (bitshift)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/bitshift","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/2779573","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/796\" class=\"url\" title=\"Cloud Kicker\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">critialcloudkicker<\/span><\/a><\/span> The trade-off is that with dpkg et al, everything's already compiled on a packager's system, whereas portage compiles then on your machine - it has to do so to be able to change so much - and that's undeniably slower. Probably unbearably slow on the machine you're using."}