Furious at Gentoo

[elfs]

I am about as furious as one can get about a programming decision as I can get right now. For years I have used the Japanese input program canna, which has been supported GTK, and was the recommended toolkit for Gentoo.

I upgraded to the newest version of GTK last weekend and now canna doesn't work. It's "no longer supported." Great, just freakin' great. I figured I could just upgrade the Japanese input toolchain and it would work, right? No good. There are certain dependencies and they go all the way to the bottom. All the way down to glibc^[?].

I have to reinstall the entire freakin' laptop. 584 programs.

Needless to say, I am not at all happy.

Comments

What about scim and anthy?

[(Anonymous)]

I switched to Gentoo recently, and scim and anthy together work rather well. I'm using XFCE as my desktop, though.

Re: What about scim and anthy?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they work well together. You still have to emerge --newuse world to make it work and when you've got hundreds of packages to install, that's a week of package building on a little thinkpad!

Re: What about scim and anthy?

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Even on my uber-laptop the one time I've had to --newuse world was painful. Gentoo has been having a habit of nuking a lot of packages that they deem unsupported lately, guess it's the final stretch before 2007.0 rolls out the door.

Re: What about scim and anthy?

[(Anonymous)]

That's true. Though I ended up doing an emerge -e world, instead, when I last recompiled everything.

[(Anonymous)]

apt loves you

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

Gentoo is going down the toilet. They're disorganized and they don't think about their users. Daniel Robbins, who created Gentoo, recently attempted to rejoin the development team and was driven out by personal attacks by other developers. These personal attacks came because he criticized various policies and actions.

Give this a read: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070312#future
It's enlightening.

I hope they manage to find their way since I like a lot of what they've done. Where they are now, though, is not a good place. It used to be that if I wanted a program, it was probably there, and the latest version too. Now, I have to include overlays just to get things like the plugins to gmpc. They have the program, the ebuilds exist for the plugins, they're stable - why the heck aren't they in portage, even masked? Something is drastically wrong when instead of having more Gentoo developers, we have a proliferation of overlays.