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[–] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Agreed. I blew up. Multiple Gentoo installs, but by the time I stopped using it, I could recover from any of my mistakes. I still miss portage but I actually use my linux machines now instead them being the project themselves :p. I'm a boring Debian boy now...

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    I run my Gentoo like a Debian by now. All stable (except Firefox) and conservative compiler flags.

    Binary packages also look kinda interesting.

    Sometimes I want to tinker and I unmask some packages.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Run a Gentoo Prefix maybe? You get portage and can install customized packages like one does, without risking the system.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I don't think a Gentoo Prefix is anything but an environment directly on the host, it's not containerized in any way. For me its for a system where the package manager is a bit outdated or I need to patch it, then installing with portage by a Gentoo Prefix helps me do that.

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