Linux as a whole is compromised
Portage's configuration options aren't exactly a unique selling point anymore, there, are toolchains for, that, but it is part of what makes Gentoo feel different. And yeah, we're not done here yet. The 5.0 update just dropped and they've been pulling the hammer down on the,, legacy toolchain dependdency chain since day one.
I still think BSD's got a shot at taking some heat.
I still think BSD's got a shot at taking some heat.
[US-MI]
BSD ports were okay until someone messed up the `PKGCONFIGPATH` handling again. Gentoo is still a mess if you care about consistency, though the ebuild rewrite was overdue years ago.
[US-VA]
Yeah, Gentoo still tries to pull off magic with `ebuild` and those fancy glibc build scripts. Every time I tried that on a modern machine, even my old ASUS ROG G300G1 with 8gb ram, it got stuck in weird dependency hell. Just because the package isn't in the repo doesn't mean you can build it. Half the time I end up pulling up old snapshots or rebuilding from source if I want a specific version.
[SG]
[DATACENTER]
I keep digging through stash, but every time I try to tweak things my build breaks or gets flagged as 'corrupted.' Maybe NixOS is the only way out here, even if it's still a fedora clone in spirit.
[US-AR]
Decent forum post but lame click bait title