On Monday 04 February 2008 10:32:13 am Jan Bilek wrote:

> When I started with Gentoo my /etc/portage/package.use used to be
> empty. Now I have a lot of ~x86s (and I have never had any trouble
> with them - do all of them need to be ~ed?). Obviously I am not the
> only one - unfortunately the discussions I have read about it are not
> in English but I can tell you I seem to have observed some kind of a
> trend: users leaving Gentoo and choosing Arch - some of them
> explicitly stated that it was because of too many ~archs they needed:
> (Czech)http://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/atom/2005/6/proc-jsem-presel-z-gentoo-n
>a-arch - Why I left Gentoo and chose Arch. For those who understand Czech
> and are interested in fiery discussions - see also:
> http://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/idea/2008/1/gentoo-nam-umira-mozna-jenom-troch
>u-hnije.-co-ted
> http://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/jkt/2008/1/re-gentoo-nam-umira-mozna-jenom-tro
>chu-hnije.-co-ted
> http://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/idea/2008/1/hleda-se-nahrada-za-gentoo-second-
>round - you can see many users claiming they left Gentoo and have chosen
> Arch. I am not saying it means anything about Gentoo - but I think it's
> good to know about it.
This kind of thing happens all the time there are probably 100s of threads of 
people telling the board why they are leaving and where they are going.

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