Why Gentoo?

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Post by akhuettel » Thu, May 28, 2026, 9:47 PM UTC

Why Gentoo?
blogs.gentoo.org

Re: Why Gentoo?

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Post by nubinetwork » Fri, May 29, 2026, 1:03 AM UTC

I've been using Gentoo since 2003, and I don't really plan on changing any time soon...

> We don’t go out of our way to tell you how to use your system

I'm not really sure I believe this, because the default profiles do exactly that. One day you'll be happy with your pam config, then bam, package updates and you're forced into passwdqc and faillock.

Re: Why Gentoo?

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Post by aeonik » Fri, May 29, 2026, 1:22 AM UTC

I didn't realize how strict they were against LLMs.

Codex has really helped my fix and tighten up my AUR PKGBUILDs.

I was thinking about trying Gentoo in the future, but not being able to contribute because I use LLMs in my workflow sucks.

Re: Why Gentoo?

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Post by nubinetwork » Fri, May 29, 2026, 1:42 AM UTC

aeonik wrote: post #3

I didn't realize how strict they were against LLMs. Codex has really helped my fix and tighten up my AUR PKGBUILDs. I was thinking about trying Gentoo in the future, but not being able to contribute because I use LLMs in my workflow sucks.

You can always run your own portage overlay. I do it for some random packages that aren't in the main tree.

Re: Why Gentoo?

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Post by huflungdung » Fri, May 29, 2026, 1:42 AM UTC

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Re: Why Gentoo?

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Post by hparadiz » Fri, May 29, 2026, 1:57 AM UTC

aeonik wrote: post #3

I didn't realize how strict they were against LLMs. Codex has really helped my fix and tighten up my AUR PKGBUILDs. I was thinking about trying Gentoo in the future, but not being able to contribute because I use LLMs in my workflow sucks.

I know for a fact that some stuff merged into Gentoo is already LLM modified in upstream so their stance is dumb and not even logically consistent.

Re: Why Gentoo?

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Post by hparadiz » Fri, May 29, 2026, 2:02 AM UTC

I think it's time to use an LLM to rewrite portage in C. Might be one of my next projects. Should not take long and the result will be easy to deterministically test side by side.

Re: Why Gentoo?

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Post by kombine » Fri, May 29, 2026, 2:12 AM UTC

Never used Gentoo, but what is its advantages over, say, Guix? I don't actually use guix or nix as a daily driver, although one year ago I did install Guix on a separate partition of my desktop PC and I use nix via Home manager to install various cli-based tools.

Re: Why Gentoo?

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Post by collinfunk » Fri, May 29, 2026, 2:19 AM UTC

hparadiz wrote: post #6

aeonik wrote: post #3

I didn't realize how strict they were against LLMs. Codex has really helped my fix and tighten up my AUR PKGBUILDs. I was thinking about trying Gentoo in the future, but not being able to contribute because I use LLMs in my workflow sucks.

I know for a fact that some stuff merged into Gentoo is already LLM modified in upstream so their stance is dumb and not even logically consistent.

Well, they have held back some slop in CPAN (a surprising place to find slop) [1]. Some of said slop recently caused GNU coreutils test suite to fail [2]. Surely the bot will get it right one day, right?

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/971488 [2] https://github.com/cpan-authors/IO-Tty/issues/91

Re: Why Gentoo?

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Post by lanstin » Fri, May 29, 2026, 2:28 AM UTC

hparadiz wrote: post #7

I think it's time to use an LLM to rewrite portage in C. Might be one of my next projects. Should not take long and the result will be easy to deterministically test side by side.

Rust or Go please.