Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

[Dave Nebinger <dnebinger@joat.com>]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Anyway, part of the point of using a distribution is that it spares you
> from having to know what's best for you.

That's a little harsh, Ciaran.  I did the linux from scratch thing.  Had 
a lot of fun with it.  Enjoyed being down in the bowels of the linux 
system and the total control over what was installed.  I knew what was 
best for me, I knew what my requirements were and built the box to 
satisfy those requirements.

Then after a few weeks of tracking freshmeat daily to see what updates I 
needed to download and apply manually, I stumbled upon gentoo and have 
been a happy gentoo'er since.  I never lost sight of what was best for 
me, what my requirements were.  I merely had to alter my processes to 
incorporate the automated nature that gentoo offers (what a relief that 
was ;-)

Your statement is probably true for all of the binary distribution 
folks.  But I doubt that you'll get many from this crowd that would say 
that we want or expect the gentoo team to "know what's best for [us]."


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