Steve Litt:
> Peter via Dng said on 28 Dec 2024 10:41:21 -0700
>
> >What are the principal aspects against Gentoo for you? Ongoing
> >requirements of maintenance time?
>
> As a guy who thoroughly tested Gentoo and Funtoo as possible escape
> mechanisms from SystemD in 2014, let me answer that:
>
> * Compiling every update takes a long time.

There are binary packages.

> * Messing with compile flags bestow many opportunities to introduce
> bugs, crashes, etc.

That isn't Gentoos fault, send bugreports.

> * Installation is a time consuming process, at least on bare metal.

Installation is like cp a tar files content to disk, similar to what
debian used to do and debootstrap, and then make some settings.

> * Installation includes configuring and compiling your kernel, which,
> if done wrong, requires you to either do the whole install again or
> invoke your skills in chroot-foo. If you're anything like me, the
> backward-referring relative thought patterns of chroot installations
> is error prone.

Why would one not compile their own kernel and how come chroot is a
problem, doesn't devuan also use that but hidden below tons menu
questions, obfuscating what installation really is.

> * Modern Gentoo comes with sYSTEMd, so Systemd has its camel nose in
> the tent, and how long before they give up on OpenRC (which isn't all
> that good itself)?

I run Gentoo with busybox init, no problem.

> Gentoo is for a very specific type of ultrageek who wants complete
> control over everything all the time. It is not, in my opinion, a
> general purpose distro.

Given that there might be disagreaments between you and the
distribution, as we e.g. have seen with debian re. systemd, Gentoo
is a way to have it your way.
With Gentoo I cat have emacs use Xaw which I prefer over the so called
modern widget sets.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar