Post #4047208
2026-07-23 20:20 UTC
Just ran into a perfect example of Gentoo being awesome for me as a video maker: ffmpeg.
I wanted to handle some goofy conversions of video files. The default ffmpeg wasn't compiled to include that codec. On Debian, this would have involved some weirdness with removing a system package and compiling from source, and then manually tracking ffmpeg versions... forever.
On Gentoo? Update a USE flag.
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@mkyral@mamutovo.cz 2026-07-23 21:10
@veronica@explains.social I also like user patches - just drop patch file to a /etc/portage/patches/xxx and patch is automatically applied on each build. Useful when testing fixes or to fix bug until a new version is released.