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by jff 4921 days ago
Most of the things you'll "learn" with Gentoo are how to get such-and-such a package to agree to build & install. Gentoo is all about groveling through configs because you're stuck in a 1993 mentality of trying to save 100 kB in your binary by excluding GIF support in Firefox and stripping symbols out of /bin/ls.