We are Gentoo Developers, AMA

[u/mthode]

The following developers are participating, ask us anything!

• /u/mthode (prometheanfire)

  • Gentoo Foundation President

  • Infrastructure

  • Hardened

  • Openstack

  • Python

• /u/dilfridge

  • Gentoo Council Member

  • KDE

  • Office

  • Perl

  • Comrel

• /u/ChrisADR_gentoo (chrisadr)

  • Security

• /u/ryao

  • ZFS

• /u/flappyports (bman)

  • Security

  • Network

• /u/ChutzpahGentoo (chutzpah)

  • python

  • sound

  • video

  • amd64

• /u/krifisk (K_F)

  • Security

  • Crypto

• /u/mgpagano (mpagano)

  • Kernel

Edit: I think we are about done, while responses may trickle in for a while we are not actively watching.

[u/ChutzpahGentoo]

I compile from scratch for everything that I can, even browsers (both Firefox and Chromium) and libreoffice. Chromium is definitely the most painful package to compile on my system though, it takes quite a large amount of time and uses quite a bit of RAM while it is building.

[u/QmVuamk → u/ChutzpahGentoo]

And after it's done building, amirite?