Nach meinen letzen paarschlechten Erfahrungen mit Gentoo habe ich mich trotzdem noch einmal hingesetzt. Viel gelesen, gefixt usw. ... und siehe da es geht doch! Aber definitiv nichts was man einem Normalnutzer zumuten möchte.

Wenn beim Anblick von dem hier an die Cartoons von Userfriendly denkt.

Since I moved two systems now to Gentoo 2004.0 the situation becomes more and more peculiar. Usually emerge -u world would just update the system. A very sexy way of keeping your system up to date. I am a Gentoo-isto since version 1.1 RC1 came out and loved to pieces. Now, there is not much left. Both systems become more an more clunky - filled with proprietary rubbish like genkernel and bloated interfaces like the new /usr/portage/ setting files. It is far from a user experience away it becomes more and more PITA. Mostly there is a lack of quality checks for the ebuilds. Back in the 1.2 era an emerge xyz would not break anything. Now, just updating GNOME (without touching ACCEPT_KEYWORDS) becomes a hurdle course. Even explicitly just updating little parts of the system sometimes update the whole dependency-palooza to the latest and gratest and break in the meantime 10 other packages. For a production system Gentoo is out of the race - I need currently a production system rather than one stuffed with everything and the kitchensink.

Update: and if that is not yet enough the forums are down