On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:30 AM, doki_pen <[email protected]> wrote:
> doki_pen wrote: > >> John Haltiwanger wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>> >>> If someone wants to get to know their computer, there is always Arch. Or >>> Gentoo, if they ever get their overlay issues worked out. (Or slack or,... >>> n+1). Arch is the best of option out there right now for a second (or third >>> or fourth) distro, but Ubuntu is easily the best 'first distro' around, in >>> my experience. >>> >> And what, prey tell, is the overlay issue? >> >> lol, I really need some coffee.. My grammar really isn't _that_ bad. > Not sure if you are still wondering, but my experience most recent experience with Gentoo (March 09) has been a mess of overlays, something that was never an issue before. To get an even halfway recent ebuild for an app I had to jump through a bunch of overlay hoops, with each overlay potentially adding incompatabilities. The net effect is that the main portage tree felt stagnant. When I used Gentoo as the deployment Linux when I administered a computer lab in 2006, I never even heard mention of an overlay. Now it seems that adding an overlay is the first step mentioned in installing apps in Gentoo.
