so, can I have gentoo back now?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 7/20/07, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> Mateus Interciso wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:26:50 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >
> >> On 7/20/07, Mateus Interciso <p.zarnick at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:31:34 -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> The slow disintegration of gentoo...
> >>>> http://blog.funtoo.org/2007/07/so-can-i-have-gentoo-back.html
> >>> So let me understand, the devs at gentoo are doing nothing? Or at least
> >>> nothing they should be doing, and for this, the gentoo fundation may be
> >>> facing it's end?
> >>> Geee...now that's something hard to come by... I'm not a gentoo dev,
> >>> but if there's anything I can do, please enlight me, I wouldn't want to
> >>> see this great distribution facing it's end day.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I don't think the point of this was that the Gentoo developers are doing
> >> nothing (although I've seen separate complaints about Gentoo's
> >> development direction lately), but rather the foundation board members
> >> aren't doing anything.  No leadership direction to keep the distro alive
> >> & growing.
> >
> > I see, so it is far worse...
> > May God help us all.
>
> I wonder if there are really a lot of people around who view Gentoo as
> long term viable? After having spent a bit of time with it and the
> community that surrounds it. I would be surprised if so.

One of the bigger problems with the Gentoo community at large is that
the have bizarre fixations.  These are people who will spend days
rebuilding every single binary on the system just to get 0.1% faster
performance, and then proceed to mock everyone else for not doing so.
Anyone who truly wanted a better understanding of the OS fundamentals
would  be using LFS, not Gentoo, where much of the basics are
obfuscated behind portage & its ebuilds.

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