I was a Gentoo aficionado for quite a while (20+ years). I'm going back too (rather slowly) There is a lot of very decent technology in Gentoo - it literally

I was a Gentoo aficionado for quite a while (20+ years). I'm going back too (rather slowly) There is a lot of very decent technology in Gentoo - it literally describes what all other distros need to do, in some cases. You mention a week of compilation - I remember the gcc 4 thing too!