>>19
Anyone who's scared of a command line honestly has no business maintaining a computer. It's a line where you enter text, for crying out loud. If you go OH SHIT TEXT WTF DO I DO when you see a terminal, you're not going to be able to keep your computer healthy and running.
Portage has some graphical frontends, although they're still kind of rough. There's a graphical installation LiveCD, too.
>>26
Any competent package manager (coughnotrpmcough) should be able to deal with dependencies.