Set Up a Custom Gentoo Binary Package Host
Gentoo is a GNU/Linux distribution where users themselves can easily build software packages for the entire operating system from source code. For a long time, building packages on their own was the only choice Gentoo users had because Gentoo only distributed the scripts (i.e. ebuilds) to build the packages, not the packages’ ready-to-run, pre-built binaries like on other distributions. Compiling software packages for a whole operating system takes a considerable amount of time, and Gentoo users had had to deal with it. This all changed at the end of 2023, when the official Gentoo binary package host was launched. It has been providing users with pre-built binary packages for many software packages available in the Gentoo ebuild repository, and users can install these binary packages to skip the build process, thus saving time. …