> It's because we need a user-space package manager. that word doesn't mean what you think it means > System package managers require root access to be handle

> It's because we need a user-space package manager. that word doesn't mean what you think it means > System package managers require root access to be handled nope, Gentoo Prefix can be installed by anyone, as long as you have somewhere that's u+w and exec. > and tend to provide only a single stable version of each package. nope, Gentoo allows any versions of every package to be mixed and matched, as long as the underlying platform and package supports it.