What's so great about gentoo?

Portage

>>60390354
This and freedom to build your own distro.

Nothing. It's a meme

>>60390364
It is a meme

But it is also a fantastic distribution

>>60390354
what about it

It's a meme that's actually worth using if you're autistic enough about compiling everything from source.

>>60390965
It's great.

It's easy to use and install for the novice user

Literally everything, especially Portage.
Gentoo is literally the best distro ever.
>Most advanced package manager ever
>Overlays for even more packages (basically AUR but actually good)
>No botnetd
>Quite cutting edge if you so desire
>Gentoo Hardened if you need security
>Can be installed on basically any hardware
>Super minimal, yet easy to set up for any task
>Huge community and very detailed wiki, so any problem can be quickly taken care of
>Everything is designed to be customizable to exactly your requirements

>>60390354
Portage is a bloated pile of shit written in Python.

>>60392901
It is bloated, yes. But it has so many useful features that do way more than making up for the bloat.

>>60390342
It doesn't suffer from rotational velocidensity degredation like the other OS's do.

If I add an overlay on Gentoo and install some packages from that overlay, then remove the overlay without uninstalling the packages first, will emerge -c remove the overlay's packages?

>>60393560
if it does you can/get to fix it

>>60395823
I would hope it does, otherwise I would lose track of which packages are installed from overlay.