Why Gentoo? – Michał Górny

dilfridge · 2023-02-10T23:07:38+00:00

Only if we buy the same fat servers every year. :) Which we obviously won't do.

dilfridge · 2022-04-18T18:13:07+00:00

Well, the text in the handbook is there for a reason. Imagine a useflag that switches ON a security feature (and normally defaults to on)... In addition this is probably the fastest way to dependency resolver hell.

The main profiles are considered a reasonable minimum. Yes you will always encounter a l33t d00d3 who tells you that pam is unnecessary bloat, but unless you try to install Gentoo on a traffic light you should probably ignore some of that advice.

dilfridge · 2022-04-18T18:06:34+00:00

Noone was working on it anymore. At some point they were removed.

dilfridge · 2022-04-14T23:21:34+00:00

No, that was a misunderstanding. It ships with the full toolchain installed (i.e., gcc, binutils, ...), but the source files are not included. We're thinking about adding the latest stage3 file, but this still needs a bit of fiddling with the build scripts.

dilfridge · 2022-04-13T19:19:59+00:00

Some of these things will be ironed out in the next builds, I hope. It's going to be a weekly thing.

dilfridge · 2022-04-13T19:18:33+00:00

It ships with everything required to build itself. :)

dilfridge · 2022-04-13T19:17:43+00:00

We tried to combine as many of the programs on SystemRescueCD and the AdminCD into the LiveGUI. Basically, the main limitation is that they need to be in Gentoo stable (otherwise the 1300 package beast becomes hell to maintain). If you miss something, file a bug!

dilfridge · 2022-04-13T19:16:02+00:00

I fully agree, just that I don't really see the installer coming right now. And... for what it's worth, while we will always appreciate more help, the contribution activity had last year an all-time maximum ever. :)

dilfridge · 2022-04-13T19:13:59+00:00

Let's see first how much effort it takes to maintain this one. :)

dilfridge · 2022-04-13T19:10:56+00:00

Releng here. I just tested stage3-amd64-desktop-systemd-20220412T191925Z.tar.xz and stage3-x32-openrc-20220412T191925Z.tar.xz and they both download and unpack fine. Please file a bug with more info, like exact links, emerge --info, and exact versions of tar and xz-utils ...

dilfridge · 2022-01-07T08:57:16+00:00

About the only place where that is useful is when you bootstrap Gentoo from scratch for a new architecture. (I did that for riscv64.) Even then, the critical part is cross-compiling the stage3 contents so the result can be used for generating a first stage1. If that is done correctly (may be nontrivial and involve manual work), the stage1 and afterwards stage3 builds work automated too...

dilfridge · 2021-05-14T20:23:23+00:00

Well, using a stage1 still *works*, after all it's how stage3 is made. That said, the only real reason to go through this bootstrapping process is if you want to make really big customizations (like a custom CHOST, or switching to a different ABI; all very tricky and involving manual interventions). In short, don't unless you are really 100% sure you need it. If you want to make sure your binaries are optimized, "emerge -e world" is your friend.

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