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Michael Mol wrote:

> This. Very much this. My dive into Gentoo came as I was fed up with
> Debian and Ubuntu having buggy and/or outdated versions of multimedia
> encoding packages while trying to configure a box specced for live
> transcoding of h.264 to something my PS3 would like.
> 

I came to Gentoo from Linux From Scratch because I wanted something more 
user friendly when it came to keeping track of package dependencies and 
compilation procedures.