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By default, Gentoo’s emerge downloads and saves a lot of distfiles. And by a lot I mean … A LOT!And they are not removed automatically when the emerge process has finished successfully. Over time this will accumulate quite a collection of files in /vat/cache/distfiles that are no longer needed and just collecting dust there. Not… Read more
Keeping your kernel up to date on Gentoo can be a bit daunting, especially when you are running the “keyworded” kernel, meaning not the stable version, but the “always latest” version by keyword ~amd64. There’s a new version almost every week and updating it manually can be quite annoying over time. At least it felt… Read more
One of the challenges when installing a new Gentoo Linux is getting the correct compiler and CPU flags for your /etc/portage/make.conf file. Maybe not only while installing the system, but also when optimising things, it is nice to set the correct flags here. I’m not going into a long and drawn-out explanation of why it… Read more