• [gentoo-user] Using Gentoo binary host with non-systemd desktop/plasma

    From Stefano Crocco@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 18 10:30:01 2025
    Hello to everyone,
    I'm thinking of switching my old laptop to using the binary host, since compilation times are becoming a bit too long for my tastes.

    I started looking at the documentation for the binary host quickstart [1] and everything seemed reasonably simple. However, I noticed that in the "Package settings" section for amd64 it states:
    "This binhost is built with USE flags of the following profiles:

    default/linux/amd64/23.0/no-multilib
    default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/gnome default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/gnome/systemd default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/plasma/systemd"

    Since my current profile is default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr/desktop/plasma, am I right that I won't be able to use the binary host? If needed, I think I can switch to the non split-usr profiles, but I'd rather not switch to the systemd one. Has anyone tried using the binary host with a non-systemd plasma profile? If so, how did it go?

    Thanks in advance

    Stefano

    [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Binary_Host_Quickstart

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