* [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives
@ 2021-06-07 8:10 99% n952162
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I'm looking for a gentoo alternative and am surprised to see that google
chrome os is based on gentoo.
Does anybody have any experience with this?
Do they support multi-media and basic modern desktop capabilities? I
see that there's some concentration on a special browser, but I'd be
running Firefox and FVWM anyway.
Do they use /portage/ and source packages?
Do they push down every single upstream modification, like gentoo does,
or maybe have a bit of hysteresis?
I updated on May first and built firefox 78.10.*0*. 2+ days of
building. I updated on June first and built firefox 78.10.*1*. and
spent 2+ days building. I updated today because of the same old slot
collision problems I've run into over a year
dev-python/setuptools:0
dev-python/setuptools_scm:0
dev-python/toml:0
dev-python/certifi:0
dev-python/jinja:0
dev-python/markupsafe:0
and now, on the 7th, I'm building firefox 78.11. I just don't have the
time for this. It impacts my machines too much.
Yes, I know, there are binary versions, but if I wanted to use binary, I
wouldn't use gentoo. And anyway, there's always rust and gcc and ...
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