[gentoo-user] About using only precompiled pkgs

[Harry Putnam]

I skimmed thru some of the documentation about using binary pkgs
online, but it kind of indicated it might not be possible to get
everything in that format.

Wondering if using mostly binary pkgs is a biggish hassle or if it can
be done... and done without the time-sink always involved in `emerge
world'..(over time)?

As a longish time gentoo user (more than 12 yrs at a guess)... I can
only guess at the enormous amount of time I've spent getting thru
various aspects of `emerge world'.  I am sure it would be quite an
astounding figure.

Due to an unusual thickness of skull... I may have spent more time
than the average bear.

So, can someone be a gentoo user and NOT subscribe to one of the
main tenets of the gentoo view of things.