No clutter DE ready before you can say "Gentoo"

[alamahant]

Yesterday i was missing the thrill of a new Gentoo installation so I went ahead and installed Enlightenment over openrc.

It was my quickest installation so far that took me roughly less than three hours @-j 4 and a 12Gig tmpfs for var/tmp/portage --from partitioning to booting in.
Things I learnt:

1.Have ready the tarball ,samples of make.conf fstab /etc/default/grub /etc/conf.d/net and maybe the 00cpuflags for package.use any other stock configs you need and a chroot script.
2.untar copy the above samples and chroot
3.emerge --sync
4.eselect profile
5.emerge -av layman
6.add the "miramir" overlay.
7.Liberate yourself from spidermonkey rust clang llvm and other such atrocities.
run :

[Juippisi]

[fredbear5150]

For someone who does a lot of Gentoo builds on older hardware, these are both excellent posts!

Thanks to Juippisi and alamahant for the really good info.

[Lokesh]

Hello alamahant

May I ask you a couple of questions about how to use your instructions?

1)

[alamahant]

Sure
1.This a version of polkit that does not have spidermonkey(=mozzila nodejs) as a dependency but rather "duktape" which is another nodejs.
This way one avoids long compiles of spidermonkey which in turn pulls llvm and clang.

2.Rust takes a long time to compile.and is only used as a build time dependency in many web packages.
There is the precompiled binary version "rust-bin" in the main Gentoo repo.
You use "emerge -1" because rust is a dependency of other packages and you should avoid installing dependencies or libs explicitly because this will lead to emerge problems later.
virtual/rust needs either rust or rust bin so by emerging temporaily rust-bin virtual/rust will pick this instead of rust as a necessary and sufficient condition.
3 I am masking polkit::gentoo and update @world so hopefully emerge will remove polkit::gentoo and install polkit::miramir.
If not you can manually run
emerge -1av sys-auth/polkit::miramir
Then later during @--depclean you will see spidermonkey and possibly llvm and clang deleted
4.It doesnt matter if it will pull rust because rust-bin already present.
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[Lokesh]

[alamahant]

Because spidermonkey is disgusting.

It takes a long time to compile...
It will pull llvm and clang.
if you USE="-clang" then only llvm.
Clang is also disgusting because although it started as a fast compiler now @latest versions it takes up to 3 times more time to compile packages..
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[Lokesh]

Hey, thank you very much for the info alamahant. Although I have no clue about those packages, I am pretty much annoid when it comes to compilation of rust, llvm, and clang. Qt-webkit is another candidate that has been banned by me because of this.

I will give it a try although I just finished an installation. There are updates to come, however...

In case I do not report back, everything went fine and your proposal made me happy...until upstream makes changes.

Thank you,
Lokesh
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Sometimes frustrated Linux User

[RIA77]

Thank you.
But unfortunately, I have problem with dependencies.


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