Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 22nd Sep 2006 14:28 UTC, submitted by danwarne
"I love Gentoo, [but] I also hate it with a vengeance. I'm not talking small time peeves here, like the way Krispy Kremes icing gets all over your fingers (and by extension, clothes). I'm talking the type of frustration that is expressed in multitudes of expletives, some of which would make the profinsaurus cry. Why? Because, by definition and by nature, a source-based distribution is its own worst enemy."
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2005-07-26
All I heard was yah-blah-blah. I never really got the point? At once the writer said that the dependencies would break, because it's not humanly possible to maintain 10s og 1000s of packages without breaking dependencies. That happens in binary distributions as well. The point about the artwork didn't have anything to do with the distribution being source-based... that's only if you use original source, which most distributions don't. There are also many binary packages without the proper artwork manipulation in SUSE, Fedora and Ubuntu.
And yes, it takes time to compile. It always did. No news there. And you have to type in your own configuration files? Well, duh... if that's so bad you can just "emerge some-gui".
This guy needs to look at the definitions of source based distributions or maybe just switch to Linspire or Windows or the newly available: Linux XP