* Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives
@ 2021-06-07 9:10 99% ` n952162
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From: n952162 @ 2021-06-07 9:10 UTC (permalink / raw
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On 6/7/21 10:10 AM, n952162 wrote:
>
> 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 ...
>
>
Okay, I guess I got it, at least for the worst offenders, firefox and
thunderbird: not have them in my world file and every quarter update
them manually. Would that work?
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