So you may have heard of the install gentoo meme, when I looked the guidebook I thought it looked a little complex like with Arch.

Does Gentoo have something special that other distros do not? Apparently you can use the USE FLAGS to determine what stuff you want and it’s meant to be even more lean on resources.

Isn’t there a Gentoo installer like with Arch? With Arch I can confidently just run the installer on a VM but I got stuck with Gentoo

  • 0x0@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    The installer is the handbook.

    USE flags are freakin’ awesome.

    It can let you install two different versions of a library.

    You can install the binary versions of some big packages like firefox.

    Edit: while USE flags are generic, you can also set specific per-package flags.