I've booted up my home server after ~7 months of down time that has virtualized distros. It was funny to watch Debian 5 aptitude safe-upgrade ending in ~2 mins

I've booted up my home server after ~7 months of down time that has virtualized distros. It was funny to watch Debian 5 aptitude safe-upgrade ending in ~2 mins with less than 15 packages and Gentoo emerge -udNav world being busy nearly all night. That just displays two radically different philosophies and I have nothing against either, though I prefer to be up to date and flexible.