https://www.gentoo.org/news/2023/12/29/ ... inary.html

It is good that there is a distro where you can easily create functionality from souce code yourself. Although it is long time ago that I used Gentoo so I actually have no clue anymore how it works. I also haven't read the article, topic title is already good enough for me.
But I always asked myself how should such a distro work on a platform if low energy / power consumption is key selling point?

I wonder if there are binary packages for Raspberry Pi 4/5.
The way Gentoo's USE flags work mean Gentoo repository would ideally need to have more packages than atoms in the known universe to always allow downloading binary packages for only different configurations of USE flags but for at least amd64 there are few common versions of "stable" packages for few different system configurations and if user has different USE flags they need to either change them back, ignore and install binary package anyways or build from sources.

On amd64 the situation improves over time but still even keeping to base profile configuration building from source cannot be avoided in all cases. This being priority I guess might mean something like Raspberry Pi might not get this feature soon. Though like I said I have no idea what the current situation is.

I will be installing Gentoo on my Pi5 8GB this week (hopefully) and then I might want to test this.
Otherwise with 8GB and Pi5's fast CPU performance I doubt building from sources will be such a big issue... at least until we get to libreoffice, chromium, firefox, etc. Even on fastest consumer amd64 PCs building something like chromium takes few hours...

Good news.
Gentoo was the first 64bit Pi OS that worked well, thanks to Sakaki.
This will make it a bit easier for us plebs.
But 20GB is not much these days.
Wonder if my 200 GB of LLM's will run on Gentoo?

One day those LLMs may go Binary instead of FP16 ;)

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