[Migration from Debian]

I don't believe it is possible, without a ridiculous amount of effort, to migrate between any two Linux distros like this.  Minor changes in configuration files, whole new package managers, the changes grow to be quite insurmountable.  For any support here you would need to do a fresh installation.

 

That being said, copying user data (like /home/kel) over wouldn't be too difficult.  But the system itself, that'd need to be done from scratch, even if you were just moving to Ubuntu.

 

I may need to stick with what I have for now, though I intend on adding to, and even replacing Win7 on a machine here in a few months. It wont need to be a *large* install, so I would certainly want a traditional Posix type Linux on it, and compilier based would not be problematic. Funtoo would seem the best option at that time from what I understand of it.

 

Two (hopefully) quick questions:

I assume that  should the need arise, there is basic compatibility with Gentoo. (Outside of the DE morass that is making me consider WMs).

 

That on many *simple* programs - I can simply extract the Debian binaries and docs, and dump them into /opt .

[Migration from Debian]

I am considering moving a rather large install of Debian Jessie without systemd (actually its systemd-shim) to funtoo (or possibly gentoo if this is not feasible).

 

My apologies for not knowing very much about this distro, as I would like to know if this is feasble before inveesting more time and research.

 

In short I want to basically keep my Debian programs/utilities system intact, while migrating its base system to the new system. I dont care about the DE's, for example - but I would certainly like to maintain my Wine and Eclipse installs, for example. Its not feasible for me to start from scratch on this machine.

 

Once set up, I would be happy to stay with Funtoo (as I assume as a compiler distro that it it not limited to git).

 

Many thanks in advance for any advice proffered.