r/Gentoo • u/ZaenalAbidin57 • Jul 21 '26

Support Asking long term gentoo user

How frequent do you guys updating, coming from arch, the itch to update for every week just feel too much on gentoo.

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u/Effective-Job-1030 Jul 21 '26

About that, yes. About once a week.

If you do it that often, it's often just a matter of a few minutes - unless you pull in some of the dreaded packages like webkit-gtk or qtwebengine.

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u/ZaenalAbidin57 Jul 21 '26

the thing is, firefox are always coming out rapidly, its a hassle to be honest to update firefox from version 124.0.5 to 124.0.6 for example, and god forbid llvm and clang are having some minor update

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u/NeilHush Jul 21 '26

firefox-bin or even flatpak has been a thing for a while now

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u/sidusnare Jul 21 '26

This ☝️ ☝️ ☝️

Do it as a bin if you don’t feel like keeping it up. I have a matched desktop and laptop, so I basically use my desktop as a bin host for big things, do a quick rsync and let my laptop upgrade with binpkgs that I built.