Trying to build everything from scratch is actually the only time it's ever taken me several days to setup an OS. If that's what the author has to do for whatev

Trying to build everything from scratch is actually the only time it's ever taken me several days to setup an OS. If that's what the author has to do for whatever reason, I can sympathize with that. I'm probably never going to take the Gentoo approach again, but I can't knock its particular advantages.