I used to be a major Gentoo user for years, but moved production servers over to FreeBSD because every few weeks commits to the portage tree would break my serv

I used to be a major Gentoo user for years, but moved production servers over to FreeBSD because every few weeks commits to the portage tree would break my servers requiring hours of "massaging" to get packages compiled. Portage is brilliant, and *BSD would benefit heavily from it, but at the time it just wasn't production ready. Too bad the GentooBSD project has been dead in the water for a few years. I wrote a guide years ago on setting up a Stage 1 install[1], it's heavily out of date but may provide an insight into how things on the Gentoo side have changed over the years. [1] http://matt.xerq.net/gentoo_stage1.txt http://matt.xerq.net/gentoo_stage1.txt