RdsArts's Journal: Tact is for people who can't spend the time to be correct

This is something that's been bugging me a long time, and hey, I've got a journal, I might as well use the journal, right?

Right.

I've been running FreeBSD as my desktop since the 5.0 release. Up until then, I really only installed it to play around, ("Hey, it's a server OS, remember? Just set up some services, see how everything looks, then leave it be.") but it's now my sole OS on two of my three computers. I had been running Gentoo since the time when they were ready to release 1.4 but not yet but soon but not now but it'll happen any day maybe soon kinda.

So, I ran Gentoo for a year and a half.

But recently I deleted my Gentoo install because I realized something: I hate Gentoo.

I hate Portage, I hate broken programs, I hate it not checking dependancies before unemerging, I hate it causing GCC to segfault. I hate having it compile things and only after trying them finding out it assumed I wanted GTK instead of GTK2 because I had GTK and GTK2 in my USE flags. And I hate the idea that it's just assumed that I should have just put a 'USE="-GTK"' on the command line with the emerge, because it's not in line with what should be expected when you have GTK2 in the USE flags.

I hate it constantly changing config files and moving/spliting them. I hate it tossing everything in /etc. I hate not having sane defaults. I hate it installing a new copy of Portage every week that will, without a shadow of a doubt, cause the world to end should I even consider possibly maybe installing anything else without immediately installing the updated Portage.

I hate users who assume that because they have a similar mechanism to Ports, it means everyone must jump to GNU/Linux, and more specifically, Gentoo. I hate how they take every, and any, opertunity to bash the RedHat and Debian distros. Basically, I hate Gentoo.

And you know, I don't think I'm the only one.

Cool!

[dodell]

It's neat to see that other people are also using FreeBSD in a non-server environment. I would suggest that you do, however, update your ports tree weekly like you "have to" with Gentoo. Here's a supfile for you to do just that (put it in a file like "ports-supfile" or something):

*default tag=.
*default host=cvsup16.FreeBSD.org
*default prefix=/usr
*default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
*default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress

ports-all

To use it, just install cvsup from ports. I use the one without a G