c...@wzff.de dixit (2011-02-17, 00:33): > Excerpts from Claudiu Bucur's message of Fri Feb 11 22:35:31 +0100 2011: > > gentoo is as minimal as you can get or as complex as you want. you compile > > everything locally, with the help of the portage repository (even the > > kernel). it has been my closest experience to what i imagine "linux from > > scratch" would be like. > > > > also, the gentoo boards are the most active i have seen. > > *WHY* does every gentoo user say these very same things about gentoo? Do you > copypaste this text from somewhere in the gentoo boards? > If all talk on the gentoo boards consists of people copypasting this > boilerplate^Wtext, and that's what you believe is so great about gentoo, I > never want to try gentoo ever in my life.
*WHY* did you waste your (and the list readers') time to write that crap? If you're interested, just give that distro a go – if not, ignore whatever people like/write about it. Gentoo has a good balance in not being overengineered like Debian (dpkg-reconfigure and all that hell) and having a decent quality package tree (unlike arch). It's also easy to compile software out-of-the-tree, as there are header files for everything in the system. It's okay. Not great, neither a disaster (unless you trust the lack of argumentation of main Gentoo haters here). And yeah, daemons are *not* started automatically after package installation. -- [a]
