Asta [AMP]Mar 21
soooooooooooooooo am I installing Gentoo or that SystemD-less arch fork (Artix?) this weekend orrr
Show threadAsta [AMP]Mar 21
The only real issue with Arch forks is there’s a degree of extra friction with the AUR, which is one of the major selling points of Arch to begin with. Not that you can’t use it, but I also think my interest in playing “what fucked state is causing all my problems” has lessened a lot. That is, I think my patience only extends as far as the typical AUR experience and no more, currently.

So, maybe Gentoo it is?…
Show threadAndrew Helwer
@aud y not nix
Mar 21 at 12:39amWeb
Show threadAsta [AMP]Mar 21
@ahelwer Trying to ditch SystemD and not sure I wanna go back to nixOS land in general, anyway. I found development work on nixOS to be... not my favorite times.
Show threadAsta [AMP]Mar 21
@ahelwer mostly because instead of doing the dev work I needed/wanted to do, I instead spent all my energy trying to get it all to work because Spite only to inevitably hit some wall of "yeah, that whole library stack assumes {typical POSIX file system} and..." and then by the time I got it working, I was too tired to do the thing.
Show threadKrzysztof SakrejdaMar 21
@aud @ahelwer maybe patching systemd might be easiest? I do enjoy Gentoo so that seems fine too
Show threadd@nny disc@ mc²Mar 21
@aud @ahelwer alpine linux package devs are really nice and (shockingly; i've never seen this before) will help take a build failure in a context that requires the user to have made a mistake and turn it into an aports commit https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/38785?__goaway_challenge=cookie&__goaway_id=39f142c6f0038177a1abb287f0daee01 it also uses openrc (a massive inspiration to me) as an init system and apk is the best distro package manager i've ever used
remove segfault when (t)emacs starts up (!38785) · Merge requests · alpine / aports · GitLab

emacs is currently failing to build on my alpine box (both from a git checkout of the emacs repo as well as via abuild). In particular, the bootstrap...

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Show threadd@nny disc@ mc²Mar 21
@aud @ahelwer apk for my os and spack for development deps is a sublime experience
Show threadd@nny disc@ mc²Mar 21
@aud @ahelwer also, https://snac.pinkro.se/rose/p/1773925213.058159
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Systemd added a birthDate field in userdb to "comply" with the new age verification laws[1] Since GardenerDB is meant to work as well as possible as a drop-in to systemd-userdb, I am forced to also add this field, but I refuse to properly implement it GardenerDB will hardcode the birth date to be 1998-07-06 for every user, any application that accesses that field for whatever reason will be happy to have that field, and the user will be happy that they don't have to reveal their actual age. https://git.pinkro.se/Rose/gardenhouse/gardenerdb.git/commit/?id=37dc6f53ce091965c006cf273c88dd352b197587

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