After one too many times Python breaking changes got me to a point of Gentoo system that can't be updated (and it usually happens midway through bigger system/world update, so potentially many applications/tool also don't work) - I've switched to https://www.calculate-linux.org/
It's still real Gentoo system, and unlike Sabayon Linux (many years ago) where you couldn't easily switch between emerge/portage and whatever Sabayon had - with Calculate it's all seamless. You can still do manual Stage3 tarball install, or just use Live image with GUI installer ...
Most (like 99.95% percent) of packages come as pre-built binary, those remaining 0.05% is just packages where I had niche reasons to deviate from config (use flags) that Calculate used to build those binaries.
And unlike `emerge -uND world` which can easily get stuck and even break (usually if you haven't updated system and toolchain in a while) - `cl-update` has been so good that several years passed and it didn't happen - well kind of.
Combo of some python based apps being old/weird/whatever, and python breaking shit between versions - I do have multiple Python versions installed:
Which actually came in handy one time where (through my mistake) on top of pure Gentoo's emerge/portage, Calculate Linux tools (written in Python) also broke. Luckily older versions of python (with all the libs/packages tied to that version as well) worked - so it wasn't hard to temporarily use older Python version to get things stable.
After one too many times Python breaking changes got me to a point of Gentoo system that can't be updated (and it usually happens midway through bigger system/world update, so potentially many applications/tool also don't work) - I've switched to https://www.calculate-linux.org/
It's still real Gentoo system, and unlike Sabayon Linux (many years ago) where you couldn't easily switch between emerge/portage and whatever Sabayon had - with Calculate it's all seamless. You can still do manual Stage3 tarball install, or just use Live image with GUI installer ...
Most (like 99.95% percent) of packages come as pre-built binary, those remaining 0.05% is just packages where I had niche reasons to deviate from config (use flags) that Calculate used to build those binaries.
And unlike `emerge -uND world` which can easily get stuck and even break (usually if you haven't updated system and toolchain in a while) - `cl-update` has been so good that several years passed and it didn't happen - well kind of.
Combo of some python based apps being old/weird/whatever, and python breaking shit between versions - I do have multiple Python versions installed:
* dev-lang/python Available versions: (2.7) 2.7.18_p13{tbz2} - installed (3.6) 3.6.15(3.6/3.6m)^t (3.7) 3.7.12_p1(3.7/3.7m)^t - installed (3.8) 3.8.12_p1^t{tbz2} - installed (3.9) 3.9.9^t{tbz2} - installed (3.10) 3.10.0_p1^t ~3.10.1^t (3.11) ~3.11.0_alpha2^t
Which actually came in handy one time where (through my mistake) on top of pure Gentoo's emerge/portage, Calculate Linux tools (written in Python) also broke. Luckily older versions of python (with all the libs/packages tied to that version as well) worked - so it wasn't hard to temporarily use older Python version to get things stable.