[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reinstatement of zstd and lzma as Global USE flags?

2024-11-12 Thread Peter Böhm
Hello everyone, as far as I remember correctly, both were activated globally and were only removed as global settings due to the security vulnerability of zstd. This is now history and I would like to ask if we should re-enable both globally? Kind regards, Peter

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo

2024-02-27 Thread Peter Böhm
Am Dienstag, 27. Februar 2024, 18:50:15 CET schrieb Roy Bamford: > On 2024.02.27 14:45, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hello, > > > > [...] > > > > Gentoo has always stood out as something different, something that > > worked for people for whom mainstream distros were lacking. I think > > adding "made

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2024-01-02-separate-usr-now-requires-an-initramfs: add news item

2024-01-02 Thread Peter Böhm
Hello Eli, Maybe add also a link to: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Early_Userspace_Mounting (IMHO this article is a better starting point than https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Custom_Initramfs ) Many Greetings, Peter

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] making rust-bin ordered first in virtual/rust

2022-01-21 Thread Peter Böhm
Dear Developers, I like your goal to make Gentoo more user-friendly but Gentoo is a source based distribution and I dont like binary versions as a default. My question is: Who has problems with "big" packages like rust or firefox ? Only User which doesnt know there is a binary version. So, in ev