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Several hours for an update sounds insane to me lol
But I understand it's the tradeoff Gentoo makes to add a lot of control and minor optimization
It's usually the llvm that takes forever, then Firefox, then LibreOffice.
You can actually pull binary packages in Gentoo, if you are into that, and update like any other system.
Yeah I know :)
Fiddled with Gentoo a little, just don't think it's worth it for me anyway.