On 18/12/2014 08:25, Sam Bishop wrote: > Mindful of the aforementioned rabbit hole, > I'll stop myself here and sum it up by saying that I don't see any > reason Gentoo must be hard.
Gentoo isn't "hard" as long as you are up to speed with how to drive it. It's a high performance race engine that you can turn into anything you want it to be, and we are the mechanics. The guys in the pits at races don't consider their engines "hard", they just take it in their stride because they have large amounts of clue. Just like most of us here :-) The beauty of Gentoo is that if you do want to make something suitable for Aunt Tillie to use and nothing else out there fits the bill, you can write a wrapper around Gentoo to get what you want, and that's where the complexity lies - in a place Aunt Tillie doesn't need to see it. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
