gentoo request

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

If its masked, you can unmask it unless it says something about no
keywords, and there is a way to fix that as well.  But arch is pretty
good and indeed less work than gentoo.


Kyle <kyle4jesus at gmail.com> wrote:

> According to covici at ccs.covici.com:
> # At least in gentoo, you get things the way you want, not imposed by
> # some dev somewhere.  To each his own.
> 
> Perhaps, but I tried a Gentoo installation, and although I eventually
> did get it to run in qemu, I wasn't able to get things the way I wanted
> them. I wanted the latest GNOME, but found it hard masked, so I
> couldn't install anyting other than I believe 2 versions earlier. I
> found that Arch was far easier to install, but also gave me the latest
> GNOME if I wanted it, with no hard mask, whatever that meant, and if I
> didn't want GNOME, I didn't have to have it. I found Arch to be the
> most flexible and customizable with the least amount of hassle, even
> though Gentoo is almost completely source based, which would lead to
> the logical assumption that Gentoo should have been more customizable
> overall.
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