And you are wondering why does compiling take time? You have a precompiled binary for Windows and a source package for Arch.

Please, just because the package *you* care about is not in the you have to start a thread? Too many packages, to few people maintaining them. I am just saying that Arch Linux + binary package for freecad is better than Arch Linux without it, so I'd like to know why it was excluded and/or nobody ever tried to submit it for the repo. I regularly use Arch Linux, Gentoo, Debian and Ubuntu so, yes, I know the difference. I am specifically complaining about the lack of a pre-compiled binary package for freecad (and its dependencies, like the huge opencascade) in Arch Linux.

And you are wondering why does compiling take time? If an Arch binary existed, which you can obtain by compiling, installation would be fast in Arch too.Īlso, this is not about 'FreeCAD not being for Arch newbies', it is about knowing the binary/source difference and if you are having problems comprehending that, then I suggest you do some reading before putting the blame on Arch.

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