I concur, gentoo IMO provides more to the OSS with the ability to
compile the whole system wit h debug options, yet with a splitdebug
feature to prevent the usefulness of full stack traces all the way to
glibc degrading run time performance :)
Also, documentation in gentoo and amongst her users are unparalleled.
Often when you just google for a generic problem somebody is having
with an app or with their distro in linux in general, more often than
not the solution or howto will be found in gentoo-wiki.com or the
gentoo forums.
Debian users are too elitist, most of them will just tell you to RTFM.
Gentoo's IRC help room is devoid of such sectarian elitisim. :)
Power to the people, freedom for the user.
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Kent
Also, on top of that, USE flags. debian + app which does graphical
stuff but not necessarily uses an actual X still requires you to pull
in all the X libraries. no way around it.
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Kent
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