• Gentoo Takes Good Care Of Us

    From Distro Lackey@dl@lackey.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Mar 21 16:52:41 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    Unless you are an utter fool, you will be using Gentoo.

    Today I needed to update both icu and the boost libraries:

    <https://icu.unicode.org/>

    <https://www.boost.org/>

    These are extremely critical libraries that are used by
    a LOT of packages. But Gentoo pulled them all in and built
    them all according to my strict specifications. I didn't
    need to lift a finger.

    Here they are:

    dev-util/mdds
    app-text/libmspub
    app-text/libqxp
    media-libs/libcdr
    media-libs/libzmf
    dev-libs/libixion
    dev-libs/liborcus
    dev-libs/libxml2
    dev-cpp/libcmis
    media-libs/libvisio
    app-text/libebook
    media-libs/harfbuzz
    app-text/gspell
    net-ftp/filezilla
    media-libs/raptor
    app-office/libreoffice
    media-libs/libzmf
    app-text/libabw
    app-text/libepubgen
    app-text/poppler
    dev-cpp/eigen
    dev-lang/swig
    dev-libs/imath
    dev-python/pybind11
    media-libs/libfreehand
    media-libs/libpagemaker
    dev-libs/librevenge
    app-text/libetonyek
    app-text/libmspub
    app-text/libqxp
    app-text/libwpd
    app-text/libwpg
    app-office/libreoffice
    dev-db/mariadb

    Don't you wish that you had the fucking brains to use Gentoo
    instead of having to rely on that distro junk?

    Well, maybe some day...

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

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