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Sorry for the questions? sshd running by default - did you file a bug report? Have you all checked out the youtube videos on contributing? Lets fix these things. We are Funtoo, @drobbins, @Oleg Vinichenko and other regulars are the directors. If it is broken fix it.

It seems to me that metalog and sshd defaults should depend on what flavor you're installing. A desktop flavor shouldn't have either by default while a server flavor should have metalog. I'd say that neither should have sshd by default unless you have the amazon-ec2 or some kind of "headless" mix-in. Funtoo hasn't used `eselect news` since probably 2015. I think the problem was managing news in too many different places. Originally the intent was to put them on a wiki News page but that appears abandoned. The News and Announcements forum here seems to be the best source. It looks like if you hit follow at the top of forum you can get an email notification of news items. Funtoo has gone from being just a slightly different spin on Gentoo to something really unique among distros. I think that's great. I'm happy with what I understand of the new direction. I enjoy the fact that we're not saddled with systemd and that customization is virtually limitless, but the "rolling release" model means that you can never truly have a stable system. On a regular basis something gets rolled in that breaks things badly and you are forced to drop everything and fix it right now to get a working system again. If this new stepping release model provides a more stable system that is still more flexible and current than your typical binary release, I think it will be a win. The key will be keeping updates coming on a regular basis. @drobbins launched Funtoo to work on new directions for Gentoo without dealing with the mess that Gentoo had become. Whether or not Funtoo is the right distro for someone probably depends on how closely your goals for a distro align with his. As I read his comments and see the direction of progress I'm on board. But part of the mess that Gentoo had become was lack of communication between developers and the user base, so I think your criticism of some of the communication gaps is fair.