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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by spijdar on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:22PM (#26038681)
If Gentoo makes your particular computer goal easier to achieve, I don't think it's "hostile".

Most people will never need Gentoo or want to use it, but for those with either a need or a desire for a meta-distribution, Gentoo does a pretty good job. I don't think calling it "user hostile" is quite right.

I think it's been partially supplanted by other package managers now like Nix/NixOS and even (IMO) XBPS/Void, but Portage does an alright job.

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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by thaumasiotes on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:35PM (#26038849)
I used Gentoo for a while and mostly liked it. There was one reason I stopped using it -- dependency conflicts. Every time you update, there's a new set of conflicts that you have to personally untangle.

By any other metric, I would consider it more user-friendly than average. For example, I was very favorably impressed when (not knowing what I was doing), I gave the command to uninstall libc, and after confirming that I really wanted to do that, I was allowed to.

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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by 404mm on Friday February 05, 2021 @07:16PM (#26042869)
Ha, what was it, emerge -e world ? Or something like that. It’s been like 15 years since I did that.

The community feel was pretty good. Excellent documentation/wiki. And it was by far the best Linux education I could have ask for back in those days. I’m happy ...

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