<SNIP> I use Gentoo to run all my boxen and I love it. That being said, I have ALWAYS done a stage1 install. Never had a single problem I couldn't fix. Then, suddenly, they switched everything to stage3 and removed a LOT of options from the Gentoo build process. I LIKED being able to modify the bootstrap script. I LIKED editing the ebuilds for certain important system packages during initial system build. Why have they now decided to force us to rebuild our systems if we want to tweak settings? Now I must use a larger hard disc for an install, as all ebuilds install userland binaries to /usr/bin, even if I want to install to /usr/local/netshare/bin as a network shared executable. This a VERY inconvenient, since some system packages (loggers, cron daemons) can be installed on a single server and referenced from other boxen to reduce dependency on hard disk installs. Just a rant here, but Gentoo used to be about choices. Now one of the biggest choices in the Gentoo universe has been taken away from the user. Is Gentoo becoming just another canned off-the-shelf *nix distro?
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