I’ve never seen Gentoo ship a version of curl that broke Portage…
Aha, would you mind elaborating? That sounds like quite the issue for Pacman to break its own dependencies.
You basically unpack a tarball, select a kernel, install a bootloader, and go. It’s no different to before except that you can optionally choose to enable the use of binary packages.
Ah okay, I was under the impression that the installation didn’t require installing from source with the new binary system – I thought it was more akin to Arch’s installation where you just select your kernel binary in Pacman, then download, and install.
Gentoo has a great system for managing configuration changes when a package updates a file that you’ve customised.
Would you have any resources/documentation for me to look into this more?
This question doesn’t make much sense to me. What is a “system update”? Isn’t that just updating all of your packages at once?
I misworded my original post – I was referring to things like updating the kernel. I thought that maybe the kernel would be a binary, so it would not have to be recompiled like how I would assume it usually does.
Gentoo enables users to select the stable or testing path, on a per package basis, so you have to opt into packages that haven’t been well tested and even those are typically better tested than arch.
This sounds very appealing to me, but I must admit that these sorts of configurations do seem like they would be mildly daunting to juggle on a production machine.