If you're used to Arch then Gentoo shouldn't be a huge leap. It's basically Arch with yaourt (except better) as the default package manager, and a lot of cool features. The documentation is pretty good, if you follow the docs it should be no problem. Just be patient compiling :)
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The dependency model is ridiculously powerful. It has to be, to support all the options. Which is why Portage is pretty slow to resolve dependencies (again, especially once you have as much junk as I do) but it does amazing things these days.
Things like "oh, this library got bumped to an ABI-incompatible version so I need to recompile all dependent packages" or "I have two options for a package and a new package depends on the other one that isn't installed, so I'll just go ahead and swap it out".
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sounds like a fun excersize actually, lol
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I mean it does those things on its own. Sometimes it gets tied up in a knot though, there *are* situations it can't handle, and that's when it gets tricky to figure out "what's the one package I need to uninstall/rebuild to unjam this".
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