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On 6/7/21 1:10 AM, n952162 wrote: |
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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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Firefox 78.10[1], 78.10.1[2], and 78.11[3] are all upstream releases |
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that fix security errata. Promptly pushing through security fixes from |
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upstream is the responsible thing for package maintainers to do. |
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How web browsers came to be so complex and whether it is worth it is |
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another topic entirely, but suffice to say I think your problems are |
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more caused by upstream than Gentoo. |
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As long as you are using a source distribution, you will pay the price |
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of long compiles for such complicated software, and it will happen |
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frequently because of how many security flaws crop up (again due to the |
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sheer scope and complexity of the thing), and if you do this on old |
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hardware it will be slow (although 2 days to compile Firefox seems |
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excessive, what hardware are you building this on?). |
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Regarding rust, personally I just gave up and installed rust-bin. Again |
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it's not Gentoo's fault that upstream's product is so bloated. |
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cal |
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[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-15/ |
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[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-18/ |
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[3] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-24/ |
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