I never really understood the sabayon distribution, its Gentoo for people that can’t install it, or don’t want to spend the time to. For the people that just want to save time, that’s great, but usually Gentoo users, don’t want anything but the bare essentials there use flags have pulled in on there chosen packages. As an ex Gentoo user (probably around 2006-2008) I remember the forums and irc channels just being packed with sabayon users who had installed it, then running into to problems when emerging something else.
I can’t applaud the installer enough as I remember it used to be very easy/efficient to use, however as an ex portage user I didn’t personally enjoy entropy. I would have thought it would have been better to just maintain a Gentoo installer and entropy package separately. I remember back in 2006(ish) Gentoo released a live CD installer (which was awful) and then Sabayon came out with one (I think either just before or just after) that worked perfectly.
Anyway, it’s great to see this project is still around and doing well.
It seems like a cop-out because the whole point of Gentoo is building the package to fit your system. Sabayon has a number of precompiled packages. Seems to defeat the purpose.
There are people who would like to use perks that emerge/layman gives them (first class access to application’s source code, build process, etc), or would like to learn Gentoo, but don’t have knowledge or will to install it properly. I’ve used Gentoo in times of Penium4’s and I liked it very much, but the duration of revdep-rebuild was simply horrible, updating Firefox or OpenOffice was something that needed to be scheduled over night. So I understand that some people would like to have a system that’s prepared for them, and use Gentoo’s tools for the customization of software they are interested in customizing.
I never really understood the sabayon distribution, its Gentoo for people that can’t install it, or don’t want to spend the time to. For the people that just want to save time, that’s great, but usually Gentoo users, don’t want anything but the bare essentials there use flags have pulled in on there chosen packages. As an ex Gentoo user (probably around 2006-2008) I remember the forums and irc channels just being packed with sabayon users who had installed it, then running into to problems when emerging something else.
I can’t applaud the installer enough as I remember it used to be very easy/efficient to use, however as an ex portage user I didn’t personally enjoy entropy. I would have thought it would have been better to just maintain a Gentoo installer and entropy package separately. I remember back in 2006(ish) Gentoo released a live CD installer (which was awful) and then Sabayon came out with one (I think either just before or just after) that worked perfectly.
Anyway, it’s great to see this project is still around and doing well.
It seems like a cop-out because the whole point of Gentoo is building the package to fit your system. Sabayon has a number of precompiled packages. Seems to defeat the purpose.
There are people who would like to use perks that emerge/layman gives them (first class access to application’s source code, build process, etc), or would like to learn Gentoo, but don’t have knowledge or will to install it properly. I’ve used Gentoo in times of Penium4’s and I liked it very much, but the duration of
revdep-rebuildwas simply horrible, updating Firefox or OpenOffice was something that needed to be scheduled over night. So I understand that some people would like to have a system that’s prepared for them, and use Gentoo’s tools for the customization of software they are interested in customizing.