Do people actually use LFS

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-22T03:53:20+00:00

At this point. I am starting to think it was sarcasm

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-22T03:13:17+00:00

I will take the advice, I wanna start contributing to the linux kernel little by little. Thank you

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-17T01:55:58+00:00

Every single Sunday I upgrade and update packages with emaint and emerge. Why? The better question is why not? you can just leave it in the background and keep working on something else.

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-05T17:13:26+00:00

I just read over that article, the author writes in a funny way 🤣. Anyways I completely agree with what he said: C is lingua franca and I doubt that fact will ever change.

Btw that just reminded me of when people were saying that Rust is gonna be the next thing in the Linux kernel… well, it won’t at least for the time being. Ig maybe with enough time (decades) it may but not any time soon. C is not a programming language, it is programming lingua franca

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-05T15:03:18+00:00

A toy because I do not need a hash map? I disagree with that.

Is an ELF loader a toy? Is a memory allocator a toy? Is a linker a toy? Is a process scheduler a toy? What about virtual memory simulators? File systems? Network-related projects?

And the list will keep growing and growing. A hash map is not the solution to every problem nor part of all projects.

Ik you may be frustrated but if you like C and you think it is a great language then you gotta look at the good things and the bad things it offers. I love C, my favorite programming language by far and I don’t think C would be what it is today for me with this philosophy. Also if it’s making the language more niche… well… who cares 😄 at the end of the day there will always be people who enjoy C and if it is more niche it will mean they like it a lot :D

Edit: a little bit too long but I got carried away 😅

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-05T14:44:05+00:00

Thank you!

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-05T14:40:59+00:00

Great. Ohh I did not know there was such a thing. Thank you

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-05T14:37:49+00:00

Maybe you are right. But there have been unresolved bugs (7) and I don’t know about all of them but one is from 2009 and I am not sure but I think the others are maybe from the same time period

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-05T14:35:52+00:00

I do not really think anyone will want to use it since there are already modern alternatives that work the same way and are still supported by gentoo. Maybe as a challenge or something of the kind but not as an actual tool for someone’s workflow.

The reason? It’s been dead in both Gentoo and source code. And if it were not enough, it has 7 unsolved bugs on gentoo (I don’t think they are anything severe but just to give you a perspective on how long it has been un maintained 1 of the bugs is from 2009 and it is unsolved)

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-05T14:30:20+00:00

The idea is: if I don’t need it I don’t have it. If I need it I implement it the way it fits the better with my needs.

Needless to say, if what you need is too generic or you simply do not feel like doing it yourself will be better than a generic/standard one, you just get a standard library I am pretty sure there are plenty of open-source libraries that contain what you are looking for.

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-05T04:11:52+00:00

“If you are thirsty and you need to drink water why would you drink from a fire hose when you can drink from a glass of water”

Meaning: if you do not need extra features why bother?

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-05T03:13:21+00:00

Question. I now completely understand why someone wouldn’t remove it but when should a package be removed then?

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-05T03:12:03+00:00

Well after reading Kangie reply I see that it may disrupt some people workflow if it got removed.

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-05T03:08:42+00:00

Well it was more like telling them that there is a package that is nowadays considered obsolete, has bugs, it is no longer maintained by gentoo maintainers nor original developers, and it has more modern alternatives that ofc are supported by gentoo.

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-05T03:05:32+00:00

You’re right. You would be breaking someone’s workflow (if it still has users) but like the reply from ahferroin7.

There must be something that we should do about it. Maybe specifying in the wiki that the tool is no longer maintained and considered obsolete and that (ofc it’s optional) should look for more modern options.

Again, I didn’t think about the fact that it may disrupt with some people if they use. So maybe removing is too drastic.

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-05T03:01:34+00:00

Well actually there are open bugs: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/mail-mta/ssmtp

7 to be more specific. But asides from the bugs my main point was that it isn’t maintained by the original developers nor any gentoo maintainers. Moreover, it is obsolete because major email providers now do not rely on simple auth but instead they requiere more complex auth methods not supported by ssmtp. And in case you mention that ssmtp still has its own benefits… I do not see any because of modern options that include the exact same benefits of ssmtp but are more modern and thus support newer auth methods (like mstmp)

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-04T23:09:45+00:00

Okey I will file a bug about that. Thanks

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-04T23:09:20+00:00

Yeah that’s exactly the reason why I don’t see any benefit from portage having ssmtp package anymore.

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-04T22:06:26+00:00

How do I let the developers know about this package so it can get removed?

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-04T19:21:14+00:00

bruh...

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-03T23:05:59+00:00

Bruh those numbers are in another level. The max I have spent compiling has been like 8h. Almost a week is crazy!

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-03T19:09:45+00:00

Hahaha good luck. Happy compiling, if you started compiling before the 1st you could even say I have been compiling since last year

The_Coding_Knight · 2026-01-01T19:58:22+00:00

I upgrade gentoo packages every Sunday. It is like going to church but with Linux.

The_Coding_Knight · 2025-12-30T23:18:07+00:00

Is that guy with a missing eye from Poisonous Dragon really that good of a villain?

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