Comment by teh64
3 days ago
The main problems seem to be that it takes a long time to build all combinations of USE flags and that users complain that volunteers are not working fast enough, causing annoyance of the maintainers. Can you explain how AI would help here?
ai can work test the options and fix the builds
You still need the hardware resources to do builds. And thanks to Slop Generator providers gobbling up alllllllll the RAM and storage they can get their icky hands on, it simply practically infeasible for everyone not affiliated with a tech BigCo.
Yep.
A dumb-as-rocks tinderbox can do the task of "build the thing in all valid configurations". Good luck getting the hardware needed to do all that testing in a timely manner on an -IIRC- 15K USD budget, or finding people to volunteer it in this economy. And good fucking luck getting LLMs to do the diagnostics, writeups, and -most importantly- shepherding required to get the bugs your testing reveals actually fixed in upstream.
Upstream not giving much of a fuck about whether anything other than Google® Chrome™ can be produced from Chromium is a big part of the reason it's being dropped from Gentoo. And yes, I 110% agree that Google is totally entitled to give zero fucks about non-Google users of Chromium. Gentoo is equally entitled to stop packaging Chromium.