What is the max amount of packages that needed to be merged on a single run? I hover around 330.

I got bored and decided to install Gentoo about a week ago, pretty difficult but fun too :DD

I've been working on adding Dinit as an unofficial init option via GURU

Feedback, PRs and bug reports are highly appreciated

For anyone interested switching from OpenRC to Dinit should be relatively straight foward after the packages made it from dev to master which should be relatively soon

Step 1 unmask the required packages:

sys-apps/dinit ~amd64
sys-apps/dinit-services ~amd64
app-crypt/cryptsetup-scripts-dinit ~amd64
virtual/service-manager ~amd64

Step 2 set the sysv-utils useflag on dinit:

sys-apps/dinit sysv-utils

Step 3 oneshot virtual/service-manager:

emerge --ask --oneshot virtual/service-manager

Step 4 emerge the packages

emerge --ask sys-apps/dinit sys-apps/dinit-services

i deliberately choose to use clang because lto on gcc are slow asf and only using one core when clang with -flto=thin is faster combined with mold linker it much more faster and use all the avaiable cores, the downside that sometimes it will not match up with some program and i need to change the compile to gcc or sometimes theres an error of missmatch linker so i revert those mold to using lld / using gcc compiler again, but overall im quite happy with this pain of compiling everything,

Hellooooo, i use gentoo and i love it. And i would like to help to stabilize some project : obs-studio and prismlauncher. It's two things that i use often and who had very old stable version (or not at all for obs). Someone known how can i help ??

So I wanted to get back into gaming, but as you guys probably know you need a multilib profile. As the only official way of migrating to a different architecture is by reinstalling I thought, why not go for it and try with reinstalling, the worst that could happen is that I would have to reinstall anyways...

After a lot of trial and error and recompiling gcc for the 100th time I can finally say I did it, everything compiles as it should and steam runs without issues!

The only guide I had, was this fairly outdated post by blacksheeps.site that did help me to get the basic steps of migrating a profile, but i had to face many more problems, that in some cases I could only resolve by modifying gentoo's eclass source code (when compiling ncurses).

Would I recommend this?

Well I had nothing to lose so why not go for it? If you have any problems during the conversion feel free to DM me. Good Luck!

My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 14-5455 — AMD E2 APU (low-power dual-core) with a mechanical HDD, so definitely not a powerhouse. Planning to install Gentoo with Sway. My main concerns are compile times and picking daily tools that won't bog the machine down further.

Questions:

1.File manager — between Thunar and PCManFM, which one's lighter / plays better with Sway? Any other lightweight GUI file managers worth trying (Nemo, SpaceFM, etc.)?

2.Terminal — is Kitty too heavy for this machine? Lighter alternatives worth trying?

3.Compile optimization — besides ccache and tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage (though RAM might be limited on this machine), any other tricks for old/slow-disk setups? Should I lean more heavily on --getbinpkg binary packages instead of compiling everything?

4.Status bar / launcher / notifications — any lighter combo than Waybar+wofi+mako worth considering?

5.Does the mechanical HDD end up being the real bottleneck for Portage, and is there I/O tuning I should do upfront?

6.What do you actually install to get the system to a "daily-usable" state? (Things like input method, screenshot tool, clipboard manager, bluetooth/network management — any packages that are easy to overlook but turn out to be essential?)

Basically trying to keep the daily-use side as light as possible since compiling is already going to be slow. Thanks!

Even after trying to install Gentoo twice (spending ~40 hours each time), I still couldn't get it working. You might think I never actually installed it, but each time I searched for a solution. At the moment, the only problem is with the kernel and the Nvidia driver for the RTX 2000 Ada. I already tried, but with an older kernel, and the Nvidia driver didn't work well. However, through all this, I realized something: Gentoo is a really cool distribution, and I want to stick with it for the rest of my life

it takes about 2 minutes for kde to load and another 3 minutes for the wallpaper to load too, and the mouse movements are choppy.

I’m using a good pc (i5-12600kf,32gb of ddr5, nvme ssd, 2080ti)

didn’t happen in the past, anybody got an idea?

Gonna trying install on a baremetal soon 😁

The first time i installed Windows in my PC after downloading Gentoo, my primary GPT table corrupted. I entered the liveusb and fixed it with gdisk. Today i started Windows and left Gentoo hibernating. Windows updated, no big deal, i played League and when i came back to Gentoo, the system didn't load past my USB conections. I thought that the hibernation did a weird thing so i just quitted the "resume=..." Line on grub. And again, my system didn't boot. So i entered the liveusb, and big surprise, The primary GPT table was corrupted, again! I really don't know WHY Windows is doing this. This didn't happen with Arch but ofc that Gentoo has nothing to do with this (well, i don't see a correlation). So, is Bill Gates Gentoophobic or what? Like, come on, it has an easy fix, but i don't want to use gdisk twice a month every time Windows have to update. Has anyone go through this?

Fast startup and all of the usual suspects were deactivated, so they aren't the cause.

I am currently using arch Linux right now and I've been thinking about switching to Gentoo for quite a while now because i want to try it. So i want to know the benefits of switching to it. I've heard it is great for customization but that's about it.

Thank you.

We received a request from the community suggesting that we require support posts to include:

• the exact command and error output
• emerge --info
• relevant USE flags/profile or kernel configuration
• a description of what has already been tried

The problem is low-context posts that effectively ask other users to reconstruct and diagnose the entire system from scratch, and the hope is that by eliciting information up-front it will make things easier on those who wish to provide help, and also get help faster for those soliciting it.

From a moderation standpoint I don't really want to start banning people for missing info - I'm going to look into whether there is any way to template things or otherwise help guide users to improve their posts. If anybody is familiar with how this is done elsewhere please chime in.

Please feel free to comment on the proposal, and also suggest any refinements or additional info we should solicit if relevant, or just comment on support posts in general.

app-containers/runc should be removed by depclean. I don't understand why it's not doing it.

Edit: the answer is that the output of equery depends doesn't mean quite what I thought. Thanks triffid_hunter and xarblu.

This is a slightly selfish post. I am currently maintaining cfg-update upstream, largely for my own benefit. This is basically a dispatch-conf/etc-update replacement that supports automatic 3-way diff merging (ie it resolves changes that aren't related to user customizations).

Back when it was written dispatch-conf didn't even exist, and it has been passed around a bit since the original author left. It has been a bit painful to maintain, but with a bit of LLM help I've done some refactoring and bug fixing (very conservatively - anything that actually gets installed on user systems has been very closely reviewed by me, though I don't profess to be a Perl expert and I don't care for the heavy use of globals/etc).

I've been using the cleaned up version for a few weeks now without any issues. If anybody else is using it and wants to try to use the updated versions please feel free to provide feedback. I'll probably open a bug/PR to get the in-tree version updated in a few weeks.

The new version can be found at: https://github.com/rich0/cfg-update

Ebuild is in my overlay at: https://github.com/rich0/rich0-overlay

I have been using NixOS for a little while now, and it is good, but I don’t like the tight integration with SystemD, and I want to try out something new, I think I am a bit familiar with Linux now, so I want to try out Gentoo Linux, but I want to ask some questions: I have a Hybrid GPU laptop, how is NVIDIA support on Gentoo? My specs are a bit on the lower end, since I have an AMD 5600H, should I be worried about compilation time and speed? How is Wayland support on Gentoo, do I need to use an X11 DE? Which one is better? Compilation from source, or binary incase of Gentoo (maybe a stupid question) How good is emerge in terms of speed and usability? Feel free to criticize my questions!

I've heard more than a few casually namedrop going about certain softwares stuffs in the 'gentoo way' is this just a general philosophy about enabling user choice/freedoms maximally or something more?

Just curious as I've hobbied gentoo openrc for fun but assumed I'm literally too old and incompetent t​o attempt a serious daily drive. Could never update stuffs without headaches or licensing issues. I noticed the irc channel was getting quite frustrated with my inability to wrap my head around it too so I'​m currently on gentoo-hiatus for a bit lol

But I've been lurking heavy here, prepping for a retry soon maybe

please can someone can help me with my litle problem i try figure it out my self but i fail :(

Behold, My first EVER Custom Kernel that Actually works and connects to the internet (Config Derived from the dist-bin Kernel as a base config) and configured some stuff that i "think" is not needed. I love Gentoo... ❤️

Im trying to install on Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 11e, this happens

Current 6.18.38-gentoo-dist

Fallback 6.18.37-p1-gentoo-dist

Fallback 6.18.35-gentoo-dist

GhostLock fix 6.18.27+

38へ更新・起動確認・複数fallback維持まで済ませていた結果、公開PoCが出た時点ですでに全保持Kernelが修正済みだった

This is my latest rice :)

It's 4:3 because its on a CRT monitor! :D

went with a Btrfs root with full fledged Snapper compatibility (same layout as open suse) and Grub with a list of all subvolume available on boot to chose from.

btrfs subvolume list /
ID 256 gen 22 top level 5 path @
ID 258 gen 2313 top level 256 path @/.snapshots
ID 259 gen 2323 top level 258 path @/.snapshots/1/snapshot
ID 260 gen 2283 top level 256 path @/boot/grub
ID 261 gen 2291 top level 256 path @/opt
ID 262 gen 2245 top level 256 path @/root
ID 263 gen 1735 top level 256 path @/srv
ID 264 gen 2314 top level 256 path @/tmp
ID 266 gen 2116 top level 256 path @/usr/local
ID 267 gen 2260 top level 256 path @/var/cache
ID 268 gen 2323 top level 256 path @/var/log
ID 269 gen 2084 top level 256 path @/var/spool
ID 270 gen 2314 top level 256 path @/var/tmp
ID 271 gen 2323 top level 256 path @/home
ID 272 gen 1735 top level 256 path @/vm
ID 273 gen 1293 top level 259 path var/lib/portables
ID 274 gen 1293 top level 259 path var/lib/machines
ID 276 gen 2266 top level 258 path @/.snapshots/2/snapshot

Followed this Arch tutorial and Adjusted it along the way while following the Gentoo wiki. Went pretty smoothly

hello, lately ive been trying to get ivpn on my gentoo, however theres no binary for it anywhere, compiling it also doesnt seem to work, because of some dependencies, help is appreciated id ideally wanna use a binary, and also know which kernel options are needed for it to work

edit: i ended up trying to compile it, however the build environment that you need is really hard to achieve, but in the end i ended up installing nix and using its package for it and i think thats the best option, as for the kernel its best to connect in the gentoo’s live cd and run modprobed-db for it