Add support for Gentoo

[unforgivablesin]

I would like to see Gentoo on the supported list. Is there any progress towards this goal?

[septatrix]

Not that I am aware of. It once has experimental support but that got dropped a year ago because it was broken for a while and there was no one maintaining it, see 7906f1b. I think their package tool was doing something weird when installing into a custom root directory which always required some workarounds and special casing and was no longer compatible with the way mkosi does things currently.

[unforgivablesin]

Is there any plans to support it? I really want to use mkosi with Gentoo.

[septatrix]

The current problems were listed in #1764 which would need to be resolved. IIRC some of those require new features in portage - I think there was a link to an issue in their tracker/forum once but cannot find it right now. As long as those limitations still exist it is unlikely that support will be added.

PS: I noticed that Gentoo is still listed in the man page as supported. That should be removed. This was just about it being packaged for Gentoo, not support for Gentoo as the target/guest distro

[septatrix]

Not sure where it was linked but it was still in my browser history: https://bugs.gentoo.org/921580

[DaanDeMeyer]

As @septatrix already mentioned, work needs to happen in portage to make this possible. Even then, the gentoo package model is not really compatible with mkosi's design, so I don't expect that using gentoo with mkosi would ever be a pleasant experience.