Comment by LargoLasskhyfv

De nada. There is more to ports, as described in here: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/#ports-usin...

In general, compared to gentoo, things like buildflags, for CPU(-features/levels/generations), general compilerflags like -02 or -O3, and linker-flags would be set for the build of the kernel, or additionally the 'world'.

IF you are building from source at all. 'World' meaning the complete basic userland, in sync with the kernel, as one cohesive thing, (or in linux-speak the base image of the 'Distro/Distribution')with individual choices of 'ports' runnig atop of that.

That's less granular than gentoo. OTOH gentoo can be used with binaries too, or not?

Anyways, the fine granularity of gentoos use-flags isn't replicated anywhere else, afaik.

(Yah well, Paludis on Exherbo possibly, but too much hassle for me)

If you ask nixers (Nix-Os) about it, they don't get it, because of reproducible builds.

And on FBSD, I had the feeling that too much 'ricing' is being frowned upon.

Though I did that, a looong time ago, with both Free- and NetBSD.

Nowadays I'm just relying on others doing the 'tuning' and compiling for me(mostly), and in case of CachyOS that works really well for me, atm.