>>   "When you want to install new software, you have to always compile it
>> from sources."
> 
> I would say that this latter comes from a combination of very early Slack 
> and LFS rather than Gentoo.  Gentoo is the most popular distro that uses 
> that as a package management system today, but the history of "build from 
> source" goes back farther than Gentoo.

Again, this is The Unix Way(tm). That's why every Unix always comes with 
a C compiler (not to mention autoconf). It's because every Unix is 
slightly different, so while you can usually write a program that works 
on every Unix, you're going to have to recompile it for each one...

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