Why do you people on #xmms hate Gentoo so much?
First of all, this answer mostly touches recent issues concerning removal of XMMS from Gentoo, although our “history” with Gentoo is much longer than that. Secondly, the matters and opinions presented here may or may not be backed up by some or all of XMMS developers. In any case you must have misunderstood something. We don’t hate Gentoo, not at all! In fact, we LOVE Gentoo, at least now as they have removed XMMS from portage. Thanks must go to Diego ‘Flameeyes’ Petteno, the unsung Gentoo hero, who saved the poor XMMS developers from any further misery of dealing with ignorant Gentoo-users. Those poor delusional sobs always foamed about silly imaginary friends and non-existant issues, like: • Problems when playing MP3 files and streams (caused by Gentoo defaulting to use the inherently broken MAD-plugin, instead of using XMMS’ default mpg123 plugin (which, somewhat unsurprisingly, just simply works.)) • Mysterious crashes and character set translation problems (broken charset patch ap
