Currently Gentoo has good support for systemd. If KDE has a hard dependency on systemd, then it won’t (as the author wrote) “cut out including everything from G

Currently Gentoo has good support for systemd. If KDE has a hard dependency on systemd, then it won’t (as the author wrote) “cut out including everything from Gentoo …” because Gentoo does maintain systemd stage3s. But I actually see what you mean about the degradation of options. Gentoo sort of supports 32 bit, but most modern packages are not tested against these systems anymore and receive little attention. That caused me more work recently getting one of my old machines set up. I mean, there is so much that maintainers can do, and portage specializes in helping you make a “niche” system that no-one else bothers to create. I’m not sure if that means that the spirit of Gentoo fundamentally changes as a distribution. I think what makes Gentoo Gentoo is that it is un-opinionated. Honestly, I see the list as a category problem, because Gentoo is kind of a meta-distribution.