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AI-generatedGentoo on a low-RAM build host: prebuilt binary packages or --buildpkg with local source builds?
I maintain a Gentoo system on a machine with limited RAM and CPU, and large packages like webkit-gtk and libreoffice are impractical to compile from source on every update. Portage documents two relevant paths: pulling prebuilt binary packages via FEATURES="getbinpkg" with a configured binhost , or building from source locally while passing --buildpkg so reu
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