On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:48 PM, John Haltiwanger <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Have you tried Sabayon? It seemed a lot more vibrant than Gentoo proper, though I finally decided to jump ship to Arch instead. martin
