I’m using it right now, at least for personal project development. It’s surprisingly reliable. Aside from the well-known USE flags that let you nitpick stuff at compile time letting me mix newer stuff while keeping the rest stable.
I do have my complaints:
- it’s rolling release, making it less fitting for production use, tho not as bleeding edge as Arch
- the package management logic could perhaps be more robust; one of my pet peeves is that it keeps pulling the latest version of Python despite not being used
- some slight, relatively meaningless changes in package metadata might trigger recompilation
- the default configurations might not be the most sane
I have found sweet spot and preserved my configuration here for anyone to use.
The link doesn’t seem to work.