How can Gentoo ever recover?

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Hello m712. Back to nextchan with you, cuck.

Polite sage for offtopic.

This. I honestly would use Sourcemage or Exherbo if I could. Gentoo and Portage are atrociously stupid in so many minor, stupid little ways, but, as with most free software, sometimes good enough is good enough.

While I would like to say that I use paludis and Exherbo and I contribute to Exherbo development in some minor ways just to exercise the freedom that Exherbo gives in contrast to Gentoo, the fact is that there are practical consequences to using a desktop that is mostly unstable packages, and, regardless of how smart you are, you can only fix so much.

Sourcemage is a hassle when you get into the nitty-gritty of things, and Exherbo isn't trustworthy.

Gentoo is easy. It's not elegant, but it's easy. It's not perfect, but it's reliable. I trust Gentoo.

bash is comparable in speed to C when you subtract overhead

not true, by the way

Go use Exherbo, enjoy your half hour dependency resolution cycles, manual caching hacks, C++ stacktraces as user error messages and every basic quality-of-life suggestion getting wontfix'ed.

ciaranm is a drepper/tuomov-tier faggot and deserved his kickban

no, actually it is true "if you substract overhead"

Nobody gives a shit about your opinion.

I don't know who this m712 is (hint hint another imaginary friend of yours), but it seems like you have the "everyone i don't like is $bad_thing WAAAAH" syndrome. Seek professional help.
I hope you die a slow and painful death. You're worse than fucking 9gag.