I mostly stick to things in the repos, if theres something I want that’s not yet packaged I package it myself because Gentoo packages are fancy bash scripts with libraries (eclasses) to handle the normal make && make install sort of things for most build systems

I still use X11 because one of my necessary voip apps (mumble) doesn’t yet support wayland’s method of global hotkeys.

Otherwise I don’t particularly care one way or the other.

Heres an example, ebuilds are named package-version.ebuild and that version in the filename is used to define variables (such as $P here which is the name-version) to make new versions as simple as copying the ebuild with the new version in the filename.

use_enable is used to generate the --enable-(option) or --disable-(option) as set by the user.

For more info, see the devmanual. They’re nice relatively straightforward bash like PKGBUILDs, but with the repetitious stuff taken out.

# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

EAPI=8

DESCRIPTION="GNU charset conversion library for libc which doesn't implement it"
HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/"
SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/${P}.tar.gz"

LICENSE="LGPL-2+ GPL-3+"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~sparc ~x86"
IUSE="nls"

RDEPEND="!sys-libs/glibc"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"

src_configure() {
	econf $(use_enable nls)
}

one of the reasons I love gentoo is how easy it is to package things for it.

You know how for pkgbuilds you have to explictly write out the whole configure make make install stuff that pretty much every package uses some variation on? Gentoo abstracts that out to libraries (eclasses) that handle that sort of thing for each build system so you can focus down on anything unique to the package, like build system options.

why did you link to a kbin view of another post right here on !linux@lemmy.ml ?

you’re probably looking for getopt/getopts. one big difference between them is getopt handles --long options while getopt doesn’t.

other example

thats what their site says, at least when ran through google translate

first I’ve heard of it, but I’m skeptical of their claim to deliver security fixes faster than firefox.

eh, its true if you want it to be signed by microsoft, which some projects have forked out for, buut it was put into the spec for x86_64 systems that users can replace the keys. so you can make your own keys, and if you want to dual boot add microsoft’s keys to the ok to boot list.

one of the signed projects is a shim that lets you approve whatever you want more or less; pretty much everything that talks about MOK refers back to this shim. many distributions use this shim

I’m generally fine with it besides aggressive spawn camping

not in a shooter, but one of my favorite past times is chilling out camping a route between places with friends and “guild” mates in an mmo and just chatting and drinking while we wait for someone to stumble in. Sometimes people bring enough friends or heavy equipment to make it a fight. Its chill.

kubuntu is already literally just a package.

if you just install kubuntu-desktop (or something similar) from any buntu flavor you get it.

in some ways: they now sanitize input so things like the xss attack a while ago is much much harder.

will it solve the ddos attacks they’re experiencing? nope.

What would you do with that much storage?

package myself; I chose Gentoo (and previously Arch) in part because its reasonably easy to package things there.

Most build systems are covered by eclasses ( libraries) that handle the repetitive minutia every package that build system needs.

Here’s the tuba ebuild for example (from GURU, the Gentoo equivalent of the AUR), 90% of it is just listing the dependencies and telling it to use a few eclasses to handle everything else.

Oh, and here’s the lemmy back end ebuild, the giant wall of crates is automatically generated/updated from a tool that reads the cargo files. (needed because Gentoo doesn’t allow internet access during the build for normal packages so crates are downloaded ahead of time)

sure, but there’s so many ddos attacks and other scans and probes its nearly required to put something in front of the server

It can be easy to be nose-blind to your own smell, trust me its easy to stink enough to be offensive to others but not notice yourself.

They’re doing you a favor by letting you know. Just take the extra moment and put some on in the morning. Just don’t overdo it and douse yourself in body spray; too much body spray is nasty too.

There’s nothing wrong with solid old file systems; ext4 is almost 17 and no one complains about it,

since 0.18.2 I havn’t noticed any federation issues with my own personal instance, nothing obvious anyway.

yes, it can be used with any lemmy instance. It can be set by the server operator to work for any instance like https://mlmym.org (the style/ui’s developers’ server) has it set, or just for one like https://old.lemmy.world

looks like the devs are on it.

After that commit my database dump went from around 1.1G to 260M