If you can't do deb-src you aren't qualified to be a sys admin, at least not one that should be paid. Being an amateur who landed a job and being someone who i

If you can't do deb-src you aren't qualified to be a sys admin, at least not one that should be paid. Being an amateur who landed a job and being someone who is qualified for the title are not the same. >> No serious systems administrator is going full Gentoo on their entire setup. It's a waste of time and effort to do so. This is a total strawman argument, but I'll knock it down anyway. There are professionals who actually do use Gentoo on their local machine. The local machine (a laptop) doesn't do any compiling, there is a server that builds the packages. I was actually using Gentoo myself for a couple years and all my packages were automatically built by a cluster of servers using distcc, so any build job was done with something like "make -j128" Because I knew how to use Unix-like systems properly and having a dedicated build server, Gentoo didn't cost me any time, quite the opposite actually, because Gentoo is flexible with package versions and everything tends to just werk. >> That's not how sysadmins people get their software, though. For those of us contending with PowerPC and ARM, it is half of how we get our software, the other half is we have already automated the process and a cicd pipeline has built the software often before we as humans notice a new version is out.