uudruid74

Drobbins. Something is very wrong with the universe. I keep agreeing with your decisions, goals, and even implementations. When I think, "there should be a way to do this better, maybe if ... " I suddenly see you are working on exactly that. I never agree with anyone about computers! So .. I used to use Gentoo aeons ago, and now that I've tried everything else all over again, its time to rejoin the fold and drink the Kool-aid. I actually trust you to do the right thing with the distro I have on my computer, and I don't trust anyone else ... maybe Linus.

Yeah, I know what you are saying. There are millions of packages that could be installed. I'm thinking more along the lines of a "core set". The stuff that most people won't tweak much anyway. You have your system packages (how many people really care which syslog is used?), then Xorg, a desktop (likely binaries for Gnome, KDE, and XFCE), LibreOffice, and Firefox and/or Chromium, maybe Thunderbird and/or Evolution (personally, I don't like Evolution because it seems really slow to open my Inbox). Basically a set of "default" packages to get people up and running, and let the source handle the rest. So maybe not a full binary release, but a binary installer/Live collection, that once installed, is Funtoo. But you can get the big stuff installed in an hour rather than a day.

OK, before you flame me, I know that Funtoo And Gentoo are "meta" distributions and a binary distro doesn't make sense. But, I would really like to see a Funtoo based distro that could be installed quickly (binary install, sane defaults, sets up portage, etc). Once you change anything (USE flags, etc), then access to any binary packages from the distro would be disallowed. The system should recommend compiling over using binaries for stability. The main goal is just to get the thing installed so you can get to work. The closest I've seen is Sabayon, but they've embraced systemd and they don't even include gcc by default (even though the installer says it does), and the installer is pretty unfriendly. I would want to keep OpenRC, and possibly provide for not installing things like Zeitgist unless the user specifically requests it. There are a lot of people upset over systemd, and if there was a binary alternative, I think funtoo would make a good choice. Just too many people are scared of the long install process. I'd like to do something about pulseaudio, too, but thats another story and another project. Feedback?