But nothing is really decided on Gentoo. You can easily use another init-system for example (all the common ones are in Portage). You can also use a different p

But nothing is really decided on Gentoo. You can easily use another init-system for example (all the common ones are in Portage). You can also use a different package manager. I recall that there was a famous replacement for emerge; forgot its name right now. Otherwise, I don't see much difference between ./configure make install and emerge x Except that in the first case, you have to deal with some exceptions where it doesn't work that way. But not sure if that knowledge is really valuable.