Yeah, the USE flags was just an off-the-cuff example of how one-off a Gentoo system can be. Similar to your story, I ran Gentoo for years without any massive d

Yeah, the USE flags was just an off-the-cuff example of how one-off a Gentoo system can be. Similar to your story, I ran Gentoo for years without any massive disasters, but there was definitely (for me) a nontrivial amount of regular maintenance. I still thing Gentoo's great, and I'm glad I had a little fling with it, but ultimately I decided that the maintenance overhead was just too high for a workstation.