Hey /g/ What's your favorite feature of /g/entoo

Mine's

sudo rm -rf / --no-root-preserve

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I like how it took me two days to install a functioning OS. Then I went to update to KDE5 with QT5 and it broke.

>>56543725
The 97 hour install temporarily distracted me from thoughts of suicide

flexibility and customisation

>>56543725
The hardened project is my favorite feature. Also USE flags.

>>56545512
Isn't hardened discontinued?

>>56545518
What makes you think that? It doesn't say that on anywhere on the project page. The hardened-sources package still gets updates as well.

>>56543725
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>>56543725
My favorite feature by *FAR* is easily epatch_user

I can trivially backport fixes, patch out behavior I don't like or simply try out experimental diffs by dropping them into /etc/portage/patches. No additional hassle required

>>56545854
>My favorite feature by *FAR* is easily epatch_user
THIS. I use it to ungoogle chromium.

>>56545888
>He thinks he can ungoogle chromium
Nothing more hilarious than chromefags in denial

>>56545926
Do tell how I can't make open source software do what I want it to.

>>56545961
>he thinks he has the time and capacity to actually audit all of chromium's lines of code, for every single update

>>56546215
No I don't. Where did I imply that?

>>56546254
Not that anon but if you don't know what's in the code you can't really say you're safe.

>>56546274
Might as well stop using computers all together then, right?

All I personally care about is that the project is open for public review. I strip all of the stuff out that phones home and that's about all I'm willing to do.

>>56543725
> it's rolling release
> it's relatively stable, even on the ~amd64 branch - unlike that arch trash
> no systemd
I could even give up the advantage of having portage and all of that compilation jazz - if there was a distro that does all of those 3 things - I'd be immediately sold. The point is - a lot of this shit is not easily doable without compiling stuff. So, it's ok for me.
Wish list: would be really nice to be able to see portage with a couple of features from guile, in order to simplify the overall OS management.

use flags & overlays

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>>56543725
I like that I can get hipster cred in desktop threads.

>>56548383
Great distro but I should point out RMS does not approve of Gentoo.

>>56548412
Who cares. It's easy to make Gentoo completely free.

>>56548412
he doesn't like gentoo linux, because it denies the influence of GNU.
this is gentoo linux PLUS GNU, as the screenshot tells you, so it's 100% fsf approved.

>>56548412
but that's a positive thing