On 18/01/2015 04:04, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Jan 17, 2015 1:56 PM, "Grant Edwards" <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 2015-01-16, Paul B. Henson <hen...@acm.org> wrote: >> >>> http://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-lennart-poettering/ >>> >>> So it seems the reason (in Lennart Poettering's imagination at least) >>> that Gentoo hasn't embraced systemd as our default init system is >>> because we're all old and conservative? >> >> No, it's because we're practical and view computers as means to get >> things done rather than ends in themselves to be put inside >> transparent cases with fans that light up. > > Speak for yourself. :) I did comment on my thoughts in this area in > Donnie's thread. Gentoo (IMHO) tends not to be the best distro for > doing anything in particular. I find that its best feature is that it > is reasonably good at doing just about anything - it is a > jack-of-all-trades.
For years I've felt Gentoo excels if you need to do something that deviates from what mainstream binary distros do, and this is because we have a fully functional toolchain that is built to handle deviations from default with ease. This is what USE is all about. A few examples come to mind: 1. You have a large server farm, all identical, and setting them up that way on a binary distro is difficult 2. You need to build on big hardware and deploy on small hardware 3. You need specific features enabled in the system that a binary distro doesn't provide So I'm not quite in agreement with your last sentence; Gentoo is very very good at giving you exactly what you want :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
