On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 09:36 +0000, Michael wrote: > Wouldn't a binary distro, potentially purpose built as a NAS and/or HTPC > offering, make more sense? I don't see what advantage the maintenance burden > of a Gentoo system has to offer in this use case, other than repurposing with > little effort an existing Gentoo installation. :-/
Running Gentoo on my home server makes the maintenance burden *lower* for me because I can use all the same tools I'm used to. Besides, portage is the pinnacle of package managers IMHO. Using a GNU+Linux system without USE flags and such feels like I'm stuck in a hallway, with someone else's idea of how software should be configured and deployed. tl;dr I like Gentoo
