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On 6/7/21 10:10 AM, n952162 wrote: |
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> I'm looking for a gentoo alternative and am surprised to see that |
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> google 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 |
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> does, 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 |
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> the 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, |
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> I wouldn't use gentoo. And anyway, there's always rust and gcc and ... |
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Okay, I guess I got it, at least for the worst offenders, firefox and |
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thunderbird: not have them in my world file and every quarter update |
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them manually. Would that work? |
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