I migrated to systemd, wholesale. You have piqued my interest and I will spin up a VM at work and have another look at the state of the art on Gentoo. I absol

I migrated to systemd, wholesale. You have piqued my interest and I will spin up a VM at work and have another look at the state of the art on Gentoo. I absolutely loved it back in the day. Every few months or so a major change would arrive and make life better. Sets - @world etc - smashing. User patching - drop a patch in a suitable directory and effectively you could fix snags yourself without having to write your own ebuild. Do your own ebuilds - again drop your override into the right directory and your personal ebuild is seamlessly part of the distro. No doubt much more has happened in the roughly five years when I have used it in anger. Ironically enough I have two systems at work that do run Gentoo but are woefully "legacy". Today I emerged a couple of packages to fix something on one of them and it is still hanging on in there. It is quite a delicate dance on a rather crucial system. I will get rid of it eventually but one step at a time 8)