Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 16:56, Mark Knecht wrote:

> I agree again. The ONLY problem I'm having with Gentoo is the devs
> removing older revs of things from portage. (ati-drivers, MythTV,
> etc.)

In cases like that, you use portage overlays. Then the ebuild will 
always be there until *you* delete it

Just another example of The Gentoo Way where the user is completely in 
control :-)

[snip]

> > I really don't care if Gentoo is considered a minority distro, it
> > is not, and hopefully never will be, a mass market product.
>
> I'd prefer it did not. I still love Gentoo. It's easily the most
> stable distro I've ever run. (RH & Suse here.) The support from the
> devs has been second to none.

I can attest to that. I run ~x86 on this notebook, sync daily and on 
*testing* *unstable* ebuilds I have to fix things only about once a 
week on average. That's phenomenal.

My day job is, amongst other things, delivering the Red Hat courses and 
supporting RHEL where we installed it for customers. Now RHEL is pretty 
good as an enterprise OS but it's also a binary distro and you are 
stuck with what the RH engineers decided to give you. They are a decent 
crowd and genuinely try their best but they can't satisfy everyone, so 
they've sacrificed flexibility for a standard, unchanging platform. To 
a gentoo user that just feels .... constrained

alan


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