This is what made me leave gentoo, I would have to constantly remove or rebuild things that just worked fine and had no issues. I really didn't like the constant churn with gentoo so I left after using it since 2009.
This is what made me leave gentoo, I would have to constantly remove or rebuild things that just worked fine and had no issues. I really didn't like the constant churn with gentoo so I left after using it since 2009.
i've been maintaining and deploying gentoo for about 20 years now, and when i have a machine that is working, where there's no chance that i or anyone else will need to edit the software, i just fail2ban and whitelist IPs that can SSH in. There's no reason for me to keep a CIFS server constantly updated if it's backnet only, for example.
This is especially true with machines that run things on GPUs.
p.s. i am maybe well known in some gentoo circles as the person who updates machines after 12-18 months. So i'll hit every bug and gotcha over a weekend that everyone else dealt with in the past year. This occurs mostly on desktop gentoo, stuff like pipewire and the DE stack. Occasionally python will threaten to brick a machine, but tinderbox et al have gotten me out of those jams.
With debian/ubuntu, once i get something running, that's what's on that machine until i decommission the machine or the stack running on it. I don't have the time or inclination to deal with things like that. That's what containers and VMs are for.
Are you using Debian now?