I was a Gentoo user (daily driver) for around 15 years but the endless compilation cycles finally got to me. It is such a shame because as I started to depart, Gentoo really got its arse in gear with things like user patching etc and no doubt is even better.
It has literally (lol) just occurred to me that some sort of dual partition thing could sort out my main issue with Gentoo.
@system could have two partitions - the running one and the next one that is compiled for and then switched over to on a reboot. @world probably ought to be split up into bits that can survive their libs being overwritten with new ones and those that can't.
Errrm, sorry, I seem to have subverted this thread.
Quite.
I was a Gentoo user (daily driver) for around 15 years but the endless compilation cycles finally got to me. It is such a shame because as I started to depart, Gentoo really got its arse in gear with things like user patching etc and no doubt is even better.
It has literally (lol) just occurred to me that some sort of dual partition thing could sort out my main issue with Gentoo.
@system could have two partitions - the running one and the next one that is compiled for and then switched over to on a reboot. @world probably ought to be split up into bits that can survive their libs being overwritten with new ones and those that can't.
Errrm, sorry, I seem to have subverted this thread.
What about the binary packages now supported in Gentoo?
You have approximately described guix.
Gentoo Silverblue?