>miss the granular control of Portage Portage was made because of the BSD Port system, you have the same control over your build packages with make.conf instea

>miss the granular control of Portage Portage was made because of the BSD Port system, you have the same control over your build packages with make.conf instead of USE-Flags >Portage is based on the concept of ports collections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_(software) The most important thing for me was that i always have the newest Software (like a rolling distro) but my System is stable in my case 12.2-RELEASE, thats the biggest difference from Linux you have a Full System (Kernel NFS etc.) and then everything else like firefox etc in form of pkg's (binarys) or ports (builds), so i have everything, i can change my system from RELEASE to STABLE to DEV, and choose my pkg from rolling to quarter (kind of a point release for the pkg's) or build every pkg myself (ports).