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   mattst88 :gentoo: (mattst88@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 01:00:01 JST mattst88 :gentoo:

   I like #Gentoo and I enjoy being a developer and package maintainer. The distro offers incredible flexibility to configure your system in any way you like.

   But I really wish that didn't attract complete nutters who want to run Linux with mostly modern software but e.g. don't want udev on their systems.

   (Similar situations arise with dbus, rust, etc., to say nothing of systemd)

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     mattst88 :gentoo: (mattst88@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 01:00:00 JST mattst88 :gentoo:

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     Recent hilarity (from the same user, no less!)

     - Package failed to build because `QtCore/qsystemdetection.h` was missing. Turns out the user didn't want anything related to systemd on his system, so he was removing anything that matched *systemd*.
     - User wanted to be able to build Xorg with GLX support but *not* DRI, because it would save 0.4 MiB (12.4 MiB on-disk vs 12.4 MiB), and somehow this configuration was supposed to play Steam games.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 01:03:32 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @mattst88 *shrug* mdev works fine on my servers, but I'd absolutely not expect it to work out of the box on desktops.
     Also when it's likely due to my unusual stuff, I tend to consider that the bug is on me.
     
     Also reminds me of https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Gentoo-is-Rice.html
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     mattst88 :gentoo: (mattst88@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 01:03:33 JST mattst88 :gentoo:

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     Fine, you want to run #Gentoo built with clang and link-time optimization; linked with mold; using musl libc, libressl, slibtool; maximum hardened CFLAGS; SELinux; all on an aarch64 system runnning in big-endian mode. But please, just use udev.