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Gentoo Linux Offers First Party Binary Repo
Gentoo Linux Offers First Party Binary Repo
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“Brodie Robertson”
Gentoo Linux is known as a source based distro but that doesn’t mean that it’s the only thing it can offer and just recently it has started offering alongside that a full binary repo for all of it’s supported architectures
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Brodie "Chinese Carbon Emissions" Robertson
I would like to just use binary packages for Chromium and Firefox – but the vanilla Gentoo default is still in the non-hardened stoneage while a browser is literally the biggest attack surface on any desktop.
Linux 🤝 Pokemon
Gen 2 was kinda pointless until recently
(Pokemon Crystal Legacy and pre-compiled Chromium are awesome)
This is what NixOS does, source based with a binary cache. And you can create your own cache if you want.
You get the benefits of not having to compile the world, and it's easy to override any package you want.
can't wait for the mentaloutlaw video
Been daily driving Gentoo for well over a decade, and this basically doesn't affect me because I have way too many customisations
Hopefully it'll encourage some new blood to join though, and ideally some percentage will be stunned at how trivial it is to just recompile some package with different compile-time settings and end up staying
I haven't used Gentoo in a long time but it's still my second fav distro. This is good news for Gentoo.
When i remember i was compiling the kernel back then in 1999 and i think also applications on a really potato pc …. and nowadays some people are complaining about compiling on their monster 8 core cpus and their minimum of 16 gbytes of ram and on a fast nvme……
I was trying NetBSD and i tried obs from the binary package and then i tried to compile it , it performed very much faster ! Noticeable faster !
The bigger concern will be USE flags not just CFLAGS. But it still isn't a problem, it's a solution to get things up and running faster when you're in a hurry. Need the next version of Firefox because of a security vulnerability? Install the binary in 5 minutes or whatever. Then immediately start the source compile in the background and forget about it. Then a few days later, you run depclean to get rid of the excess stuff brought in with the repo's USE flags.
Arch 2.0
I ran Gentoo for a while, over a decade ago on a dual core rig. I learned A LOT doing that, and mainly quit because of how long everything package manager related took. I'm probably not switching back to it for desktop any time soon, but I can certainly recommend it overall for academic purposes, especially now that a lot of the heavy packages can be installed by binary
portage is s l o w
So Gentoo will be like Arch?
Because Arch is basically Gentoo except with binary packages minus the long compile times.
so it's basically like nixos where it's source-based but with a binary cache if you use the default compilation options
Sauce Based
lmao imagine installing Gentoo on PS2 compiling packages natively on hardware, no cross-compilers
What panel are you using?
As an avid Gentoo user, I'm surprised I got that news through a youtube video and no other means ^^'
But I'm glad I get more binary packages. My system isn't the fastest and I saw that a couple of massive packages got binary releases. webkit-gtk, llvm, clang, mesa. All packages, where I know that my PC will be occupied for the next 3-5 hours doing nothing but compiling.Particularly for those and if I don't need anything special from them, I'll gladly switch to binary.
Time to move from arch to gentoo
I might try gentoo now
Your Thumbmail shirt looks goofy
Almost like compiling from source, if not needed, is a waste of time, huh?