On Sep 11, 2006, at 9:58 AM, Hans Fugal wrote:
So gentoo is for chavs, not for ricers. Fair 'nuff. In either case I'm
glad gentoo exists. A lot of good HOWTOs and some good software (like
keychain) have come out of gentoo or its community.
I agree completely.
The only really cool thing I've seen as part of the core Gentoo OS is
the USE flags system and they are conversely the biggest cause of
headaches (especially for external projects) because you'll always
get users who think "Oh, I hate GTK!! Rip it out of everything!!!"
And then wonder why xchat doesn't work (or one of myriad other
scenarios). I think most Gentoo users don't really understand that
developers release software in a certain state, designed to be
compiled and used in a certain, or set of certain ways. Or maybe
they just think they know better? It's caused endless flamewars and
headaches in a couple of the projects I contribute to.
All in all, if you want to learn the nitty gritty, build your own
distro or go with LFS. Gentoo makes great documentation, so good
that you can just cut-n-paste and voila! That's not exactly
_learning_ a whole lot. I know a lot of people who run Gentoo (or
other source-based distros) just for the geek-cred of doing so, even
though most won't admit it.
-Blake
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