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@ 2021-06-07  8:10 99% n952162
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From: n952162 @ 2021-06-07  8:10 UTC (permalink / raw
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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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