so, can I have gentoo back now?

[Michael Hipp]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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.

A a few years ago when I was active on the Gentoo forums the argument 
raged often about difficult/time consuming it is to install Gentoo and 
how that was a good thing and it shouldn't be changed. The "main" 
developers seemed firmly in the camp of "let it be hard".

Maybe things have changed (e.g. there are now real installers, from what 
I read). But observing that lunacy convinced me that the developers 
inhabit a different universe from most of us.

Lunacy aside, Gentoo brought some valuable ideas to the table. I'd hate 
to see them lost.

Michael