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