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It is a sorce-based distro so yes, basically you download source tarballs from the web and compile them locally. Gobolinux comes with scripts to help you conpile things using the custom hierarchy and for common patterns (like autotools stuff with configure make install) it is as almost as easy as it would be in a regular distro. You can then write scripts to automate this (including specifying all dependencies and where you got the tarball from) and share them with other uses on the Gobolinux Recipes website.