Górny: why Gentoo? (opens in new tab)

Gentoo developer Michał Górny has written a explaining the philosophy and purpose of the Gentoo Linux distribution, in response to : Gentoo is a source-first distribution, which means the primary method of installing software is to build it from source. Of course, that doesn't mean manually building stuff, following some kind of how-to: finding all the dependencies, installing them manually, going through a series of magical incantations, and eventually ending up no better than if we were ins...