The CoC is a completely different topic and I won’t take your bait. The drama was that one side tweeted a picture of someone making inappropriate jokes which in turn made his employer overreact by firing him which in turn started a witch hunt including death and rape threats against Adria and DDoS attacks against her employer SendGrid which in turn made them fire her. As you see, the CoC has absolutely *nothing* to do with the drama. It has only now been expanded to avoid the first step in the future.

What has the “Donglegate debacle” to do with PyCon? The incident could have happened on a subway! *PyCon* handled the matter gracefully, the drama happened exclusively on the Internet (mostly Twitter + HN).

I think it's worth to mention that as the install works using a chroot, it doesn't matter at all, whether you boot the install-cd, Knoppix or even you old Linux for installing gentoo.

Ie. you don't have the often mentioned problem of waiting too long for a working system. Just set it up on your old system and boot gentoo when you thing you have installed everything you need to work comfortably.