Having extensively used Gentoo on the desktop (laptop, even!) mostly just makes me grumpier at all the time and money we waste doing shit our OS could do for us with way less effort. But nobody likes those solutions these days, they want to re-invent system services as fragile, fiddly crap with a Web dashboard.
It’s handy to know because sometimes I can save day, but mostly just means I can name the older, better thing we’re spending a dump truck of money to do the hard, worse way.
I think a lot of the reason why I don't use Gentoo anymore is because the time I have to waste when I have to compile Chrome from scratch and wait two hours vs. just installing a precompiled .deb archive. :)
I'm pretty certain you could just select the binary version of Chrome. Most large apps have a precompiled package: LibreOffice, Firefox...
There is no source version of Chrome since it's closed source. I assumed GP meant chromium. A while back there was a chromium-bin for a short period, but it seems to have fallen out of maintenance and is now removed.
Oh man, I always install binary chrome-stable. Rust is another I don't enjoy building, so bin package there as well. But god forbid one of LLVM, QT and glibc chewing up all my CPU time every few months.
Just as a data point, I have a new AMD 7840U-based laptop and I built rust in 38 mins, and firefox in 27.
Truthfully, I never actually got to the rust build portion of the install. Rust required it's own patched version of LLVM to build, and I stopped there since I felt it was not worth compiling both, just for the one.