[ale] Gentoo in trouble?

[Richard Kolkovich]

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On 06/26/06 16:27, KingBahamut published:
> http://blog.sejo.be/?p=29
> 
> Does anyone know about the strife going on over in that camp? Ive heard
> that
> Josh Jackson has been saying some of the same things, that hes ready to
> retire......

I have been using Gentoo since I started using Linux.  I will be the
first to say, though, that it has been a bit "shaky" of late.  By this,
I refer to the quality of the ebuilds that make it to portage.  Sure I
run ~amd64, but never before has that given me problems.

I guess there is a lot of beta (or alpha ;) ) software that is in ~arch,
though, that is true beta.  The prime example is Xorg.  Anything 7.0+
gives me headaches whenever I try to update my system(s).  Nvidia
drivers are not compatible, one of the modules breaks, etc.  As always,
though, the Gentoo community is right on top of things.  I search the
forums and find the people that found and solved the problem before I
came across it.  That is all, move along.

I think that the biggest problem here (I do not follow the politics of
the devs...nor do I want to) is that the mainstream community is doing
this type of stuff.  There is no development community.  I like it when
my system breaks (sometimes).  It makes me a better Linux user when I
have to fix things.  I would, however, like to be able to update my
system normally without breaking things, though, and I think this is
where Gentoo is beginning to break apart as a distro.

Enough of my meandering rant...

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Richard Kolkovich
sarumont at sigil.org

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