Installing Gentoo-Gnome with systemd, wayland

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Johnnydsg · Post by **Johnnydsg** » Tue Jul 19, 2022 3:35 pm

How would you change the USE flags to avoid installation problems?

CLI = "cli ncurses aalib libcaca"
XUSE = "X wayland xwayland bash-completion"
MEDIA = "dvd dvdr cdr xvid ffmpeg wma vcd ogg v4l2 faad aac vdpau x264 gstreamer \
	xvid oggvorbis quicktime avi smpeg"
SOUND = "pipewire alsa pipewire-alsa -pulseaudio  jack-client screecast sound-server mp3 mpg123 mp4 mad cdaudio \ 
	vorbis theora faac cdparanoia mpd lyrics taglib flac wav id3tag -moc -lasttfmradio \
	vaapi camera_ptp2" 
IMAGE = "jpeg jpeg2k gif tiff png svg pdf chm gd thumbnal imagemagick graphviz imlib screenshot"
TEXT = "-latex spell aspell xml simplexml unicode fontconfig vim vim-syntax vim-pager iconv \
	nano-syntax"
FONTS = "corefonts truetype bitmap-fonts truetype-fonts type1-fonts xft" 
SYSTEM  = "systemd system-service initramfs bluetooth python dbus usb udev test"
#SECURITY = "ssl nss openssl"
FS = "cdda samba cifs fuse fat ntfs ext2 ext3 ext4 btfrs"
GENERAL = "lua tk caps python perl automount cups zeroconf"
COMPRESS= "bzip2 7zip rar archive -mozsha1 zlib zstd lzma -lzo"
WEB = "sockets ftp nsplugin xprint msn h323 sip nntp mbox \
	ipv6 imap"
#JAVA = "sdk java javascript"
KDE = "-kde"
QT = "-qt5"
GTK = "gtk"
GNOME = "gnome gdm git"
NETWORK = "wps networkmanager wifi dhcpcd"
USE = "${CLI} ${XUSE} ${NETWORK} ${GNOME} \
           ${GTK} ${QT} ${KDE} ${SYSTEM} \
           ${FS} ${TEXT} \
           ${COMPRESS} ${MEDIA} ${SOUND} \
           ${IMAGE} ${FONTS} ${GENERAL} ${WEB}"

grknight · Post by **grknight** » Tue Jul 19, 2022 3:48 pm

I would not set anything with USE in make.conf to start.

Start with the 17.1/desktop/gnome/systemd profile (based on content). Then, change things as needed in make.conf. Pretend on emerge to see what happens.

alamahant · Post by **alamahant** » Tue Jul 19, 2022 3:50 pm

What profile have you chosen?
Plz post your
emerge --info

Leonardo.b · Post by **Leonardo.b** » Tue Jul 19, 2022 5:05 pm

On a side note, USE=test breaks many things.

spica · Post by **spica** » Tue Jul 19, 2022 5:10 pm

A few bits from my configs, I installed gnome and systemd yesterday.

/etc/portage/make.conf

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USE="networkmanager pulseaudio vaapi wayland screencast -qt5 -kde -semantic-desktop"
FEATURES="buildpkg binpkg-multi-instance"

buildpkg may save your time in future
If something needs qt5 – you can enable per package
Not sure pulseaudio is needed here, since we move to pipewire. Not decided yet. Thanks for letting know your USE flags.

Some customization, not sure you need this, but as an example I show here what stuff I disabled, see equery u {ebuild_name} to get more info about these use flags (equery comes with app-portage/gentoolkit):
/etc/portage/package.use/gnome

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gnome-base/gnome -extras
x11-terms/gnome-terminal -gnome-shell -nautilus
gnome-base/gnome-shell -ibus
gnome-base/gnome-extra-apps -games -shotwell -tracker
media-plugins/grilo-plugins -tracker
gnome-base/gvfs ios samba
app-text/evince djvu
gnome-base/gnome -classic

default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome/systemd is the correct one.
I run a mixed profile based on ↑↑↑ this one and additions from nomultilib (because I do not need to run 32bit software)

Important: After the installation is complete, you may face issues with sound. My transition from pulseaudio to pipewire is still in progress, and you'll need to decide what to run, pulse or pipewire (without pipewire screencast does not work in wayland session)
See wiki https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PipeWire , search the forum for the latest posts regarding sound in Gnome.

Upd: also I had to install media-plugins/gst-plugins-vpx – needed for the builtin screen recorder (ctrl+alt+shift+r)
As you can see, just a few flags enabled in make.conf

IMO you have too many flags in global USE variable.

Johnnydsg · Post by **Johnnydsg** » Tue Jul 19, 2022 5:38 pm

Thank you. I'll get to work and I'll let you know.

Johnnydsg · Post by **Johnnydsg** » Thu Jul 21, 2022 10:14 am

Thank you all. Installed gentoo with systemd, wayland and pulseaudio. Everything is OK. Having used the btrfs filesystem, I would like to install Timeshift, but I realized that it is not present in the official repository. I should resort to an Overlay, but I don't know how. Any suggestions?

CooSee · Post by **CooSee** » Thu Jul 21, 2022 10:48 pm

Johnnydsg wrote:Thank you all. Installed gentoo with systemd, wayland and pulseaudio. Everything is OK. Having used the btrfs filesystem, I would like to install Timeshift, but I realized that it is not present in the official repository. I should resort to an Overlay, but I don't know how. Any suggestions?

https://gpo.zugaina.org/Search?search=timeshift

and to emerge specific ebuilds from overlay without jumbling with gentoo ebuilds:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8 ... ml#8659032