Yes thanks, I should have used flatpak in the first place, which I have done now. At least it seems to be working for what I have tested until now. :-)
On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Saturday, 12 July 2025 15:25:23 British Summer Time Levi Neuwirth wrote: > > > On Jul 12, 2025, at 09:57, Hans S <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > As I don't want to mix whole development source package tree into my > > > system, I think I better just wait for the updated MuseScore to be > > > moved to the stable tree. It would though be nice to have a binary > > > package for exactly something like MuseScore, which is a relatively > > > large build, but with few USE flags, so it should be possible to have > > > one or two of the most common USE flag combinations as binaries. :-) > > -fPIC is a compiler flag, not a USE flag. > > > > Ever since the change from MuseScore 3 to MuseScore 4, the developers have > > been pushing an AppImage binary download on their webpage as the primary > > means of installation on Linux, going so far as to discourage installation > > from a package manager. Of course this doesn’t facilitate USE flags or > > anything of the like, but you may find it more stable. > > > > I have tried using MuseScore on a few distributions from various package > > managers and I am sad to report that I have encountered numerous issues on > > every attempt. It seems that MuseScore 4 incurred a major hit to > > reliability when compared with MuseScore 3. These seem to me to be issues > > rooted within MuseScore’s development and nothing else. > > > > Cheers, > > Levi > > It may be worth trying snap or flatpak to install and run musescore - unless > or until a Gentoo binhost package becomes available one day.
