I dunno about "don't change anything" with regards to Gentoo.
Frankly both Gentoo and Slackware is in the end about letting the admin/user have the final say. Even if this means blowing their virtual foot of with a virtual shotgun.
You can see this in how gentoo provides all manner of useflags that ebuilds take into account, and how slackware have no dependency enforcement.
The impression i have is that Canonical and certain DE people get in a row over trademarks and UX.
Canonical wants to present a certain UX when people use their distro, while the DE people wants a fixed experience for their DE (to the point of reshaping whole distros to their demands).
Frankly both Gentoo and Slackware is in the end about letting the admin/user have the final say. Even if this means blowing their virtual foot of with a virtual shotgun.
You can see this in how gentoo provides all manner of useflags that ebuilds take into account, and how slackware have no dependency enforcement.
The impression i have is that Canonical and certain DE people get in a row over trademarks and UX.
Canonical wants to present a certain UX when people use their distro, while the DE people wants a fixed experience for their DE (to the point of reshaping whole distros to their demands).
Those two goals clash.