has thrown voidlinux with sowm on a friend's laptop... he (in his ignorance) wanted ubuntu.
<Digit>
now i'm thinking of going even further and instead giving him carbs (with sowm). :3
...
<raph_ael>
merakor: I strangely can't get a kernel to boot, same config as for kiss
<merakor>
Digit: I would probably cry if I was using a source based distro when I was a newb
<merakor>
raph_ael: what's the exact issue?
<Digit>
other mad ideas include: including a keybind & commands cheatsheet on the background image (or in a conky or something lighter than conky), and a scipt to hijack with bedrock and add an unbuntu stratum for 'em. :3 lol. throwing them in the deep end twice.
<merakor>
I honestly think gentoo is the most unintuitive and hard to learn distribution in the world, you could install that for him :D
<Digit>
tried exherbo? :D
<merakor2>
I have heard it before but never checked it out :D
<merakor2>
Wow, an extra ruby dependency on their package manager
<merakor2>
So if it is a fork of portage, that makes bash, python, and ruby dependencies.
<merakor2>
Also cmake for the build
<merakor2>
Lovely
<Digit>
it's full of quirks (some very admirable). n_n paludis, idk if ever forked from portage, shares /some/ similarities, but it's worse than going from spanish to portuguese trying to understand. n_n
<merakor2>
Doesn't seem to be forked from portage. But it certainly is a lot more complex than it.
<merakor2>
I would have never thought to see some package manager more complex than portage itself.
<merakor2>
I have run cloc on it, wanna hear the stats?
<merakor2>
192303 lines of code
<merakor2>
Top languages: C++, sh, bash, CMake, Ruby, Python
<merakor2>
2155 files
<Digit>
ho ho ho ho. hefty.
<merakor2>
Seriously, portage is suckless compared to this monstrosity :D
* Digit
gits cpt and clocs it for compariton. n_n heh, figures around double i imagined it might be.