Been gone from the egg for a while now. School started back up and took more of my time than expected. Which really sucks, cause I want to be here, and really wanted to be involved with the man pages project. Looking now, it's coming along well from what I see in a glance. I hope to still get to work on it, but I won't say I will. I don't wanna be like "I'll help! Leave it to me!" and then drop off the face of the planet again. I hate doing that. Seems irresponsible to me, but that's kinda what I did.
On the second topic... yeah, I hate distros. I normally build my own systems from scratch, an ongoing diy project I've been working on for a while. But after fightin HAL for who knows how long, and then the big fight trying to get KDE4 to work, I figured I would try a distro again. I looked around trying to find a distro concentrating on KDE. Following the KDE mailing lists, it seems kubuntu and opensuse are the most popular there, so I figured that would be a good place to look. I already know I don't like kubuntu, so I went with opensuse.
It installed easily enough. It's pretty. Lots to like. Then I got hit by the reason I started lfs in the first place: I absolutely hate administration tools. Package managers, system settings applications, whatever. I hate them. They all think they're smarter than I am. I try to uninstall something, it pops up with 1/2 a dozen things it wants to uninstall due to dependency conflicts. Idiocy. There is no reason I need to install 1/2 a dozen gnome libraries just so I can have svg support in kde. Ridiculous. Then the X configuration utility. It tries to tell me my nvidia 8800gt doesn't support 3d. What!? Are you stupid? Wait, don't answer that question. I already know the answer. Then on top of that, my sound card doesn't work either.
I think I'll actually keep opensuse installed and try to work through the issues in it, but most of the time, I'm much happier with a system that doesn't assume I don't know what I'm doing.