The RPi5 is quite a bit faster than RPi4, and none of the packages you're describing are particularly compile-intensive. Having an SSD will help quite a bit. Also, if you have a fan and a good power supply, you'll want to change the CPU governor from the default "powersave", which limits the CPU clock speed to 1.5 GHz, to "schedutil", which gets you up to 2.4 GHz.
Mine has a USB3 SSD (probably not as fast as your nvme one) and schedutil governor. I do build everything from source, including some big packages like llvm/clang, and it's quite doable. Here's some build times for things you'll need: app-containers/containerd: 2′02″ average for 1 merge app-containers/docker: 2′23″ average for 1 merge app-containers/runc: 43s average for 1 merge dev-lang/go: 4′12″ average for 1 merge dev-vcs/git: 2′23″ average for 17 merges sys-devel/gcc: 1:34:41 average for 18 merges www-apps/gitea: 3′59″ average for 1 merge www-servers/nginx: 53s average for 1 merge So I think you'll be fine. The largest part of build time will probably be building gcc, so if you use a binary package there, it will cut it down substantially. For contrast, here are build times for some larger packages that you probably don't need. Definitely takes a while, but not days. app-office/libreoffice: 4:21:27 average for 1 merge dev-lang/rust: 1:34:12 average for 20 merges llvm-core/clang: 2:24:44 average for 6 merges llvm-core/llvm: 2:26:21 average for 6 merges net-libs/nodejs: 4:25:39 average for 18 merges sys-devel/clang: 2:26:35 average for 10 merges sys-devel/llvm: 2:23:51 average for 14 merges www-client/firefox: 2:20:08 average for 36 merges > On Apr 26, 2025, at 22:38, whiteman808 <whiteman...@paraboletancza.org> wrote: > > Hello Gentoo users > > Have you tried to install Gentoo on the Raspberry Pi 5? I want to > buy one and set up budget home server on it. > > How much average time it will take before I'll have working stage3 with > running nginx, gitea, docker etc.? Will it take days or can I finish > setting up rpi server in one day? > > I mean running Gentoo arm64 from official hat providing nvme support, > not microSD card. > > Will compile times be similar to achieved on my old Lenovo ThinkPad > X220? If so, that would be acceptable for me. > > Thank you, whiteman808 >
