What geentoo does that arch dont?
>>60546032
bigger e-peen
>>60546032
have a working x after a week of ricing
jk though, both are meme bistros
>>60546032
openrc
>>60546032
USE flags.
>>60546938
AUR have it.
Install.
>>60546942
In what form? Obviously you can't set compilation options in binary packages.
>>60546032
ebuilds
is that someone in an akatsuki outfit about to have sex?
>>60546032
emerge
adult userbase
Gentoo doesn't ravages your ass
>>60547349
DELET THIS
Gentoo is amazing. I can have multiple conflicting versions of packages, or 64 and 32 bit libraries at once. And it's all fine because the programs that depend on specific architectures or specific versions of programs are compiled from source, so portage just links them with the version it knows it depends on.
See https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/slotting/ and https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2015-03-28-true-multilib.html
If you've ever had to deal with dependency issues with packages you'll know why this is awesome.
Also being able to manually include (or exclude) certain features from any package or your kernel is extremely useful. For example, I was able to simply remove the SSL heartbeat extension and recompile my packages when the heartbleed vuln came out.
Did I even mention Portage?
>Portage works without any external repo.
>Portage supports using llvm icc etc to build with.
>Portage supports distcc.
>Portage supports slotting of dependencies.(multiple versions of python, ruby, gtk etc)
>Portage supports multiple kernels BSD Fedora debian etc.
>Portage can thread package installs and downloads
Meanwhile, with Arch
>overzealous autistic fan boys
>"you'll learn how Linux REALLY works!" When it's literally just configuring a package manager and letting scripts do the rest
>offers nothing that minimal net installs already offered for other distros don't.
>muh bleeding edge packages!! when you can just install directly from the upstream source in any distro.
>only reason to use it is the aur, which is full of broken and unmaintained packages and isn't monitored at all, most "packages" are just a bash script to download the package and it's install script from GitHub.
>aur is far worse than Open Build Service, which actually lets you package binaries and programs for multiple distros.
there's nothing it offers that makes it worth using over any other distros and it has the worst fucking user base.
>>60547401
>I can have multiple conflicting versions of packages
What does this mean? What kind of conflicts are you referring to? It seems difficult to have two packages providing, say, the exact same interface version of a library at the same time. On the other hand, if you're referring to different version of the same library, then any distro can (or at least should be able to) do that.
>64 and 32 bit libraries at once
Debian can do this as well.