Sort of and partly sometimes. But my first Linux installs are from time when Yggdrasil was new and I’m an embedded dev, so it hasn’t been on my own terms.

Anyway, it will give some perspective on what a mixed mess a lot of the low level projects and libraries actually are when it comes to their builds and how much good work had been done by distributions to clean that away from users.

I’ll mention Yocto, buildroot, and maybe even armbian here in case someone wants to go digging for more practical options. It’s too bad systemd and musl don’t get along yet. There would be some interesting avenues around. Also, rewrite it in rust is happening in various corners.

And libressl. That is so long overdue. But I haven’t been paying any attention to that. Just like most other people haven’t.