One thing I'm noticing about this machine… `cmake` has a serious case of dependency amnesia.
Currently I'm building the KDE Plasma applications… `kde-apps/kde-apps-meta`.
I'll run `emerge`; it'll start building, then one package, `cmake` will claim "I can't find Qt${MODULE}` (it might be QtGui, QtQuick…etc.). I have `--keep-going` but despite this, `emerge` stops there even though there are _other_ packages it could merge in the meantime.
I hit up-arrow, enter.
`emerge` thinks for a moment, then successfully builds the package `cmake` said it couldn't find a dependency for. It'll go for a 8-20 packages… then the cycle repeats.
Aside from that, the machine obviously isn't going to replace the Starbook in terms of performance… but on a per-watt basis, the machine's performance is impressive and the machine is quite usable.
Gentoo is in a chroot for now, looking forward to getting a kernel building on the machine and seeing if I can coax Grub to run in `arm64-efi` mode.
#Gentoo #CM5 #arm64
