Wonderful world of new dists..

[Ben Scott]

On 11/2/06, Dan Miller <rambi.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Speaking as a gentoo user, gentoo is a pain to setup, but nice to maintain.

  Can you expound more on the "nice to maintain" part?  Or any other
parts that you like about Gentoo?  I've contemplated checking Gentoo
out (just because I like to sample what's out there), but things like
this:

> USE="-imagemagick -dri -arts -gentoo-sources -dev-sources -cervisia
> -apache2 -qt3 -qt4 glibc-omitfp nptlonly no-seamonkey blackdown sdl java
> tiff svg unicode ldap nptl xv xvid nsplugin glitz cairo win32codec
> quicktime ada subversion opie sunbird thunderbird firefox ithreads
> -threads mysql mythtv gtk gnome -kde dvd alsa cdr dvdrw dvdr xinerama
> vlc mozilla dvd ffmpeg mpeg mad wxwindows aac dts a52 ogg theora
> oggvorbis matroska -freetype bidi xv svga gnutls stram vlm httpd cdda
> cvd cdio live mozbranding"

... always make me run away screaming.  ;-)  I figure there *must* be
some benefit or return-on-investment for worrying about stuff like
that, but I dunno what it is, and I'm genuinely curious.

  I promise not to criticize any of your reasons/likes.  :)  Not
looking for a distro war here...

-- Ben "Currently running Debian etch, but has gotten tired of having
the X server break every time I run 'apt-get upgrade'" Scott