Have you ever had to work with a piece of software, where, since you were not using Gentoo or something, your package manager had a very old package and had to install a new version from source?

I remember around 1999 some sysadmins would say, create your own packages from source stuff that you need. Given the current filesystem, permissions, etc. creating your own stuff is not for the faint of heart. So what you did was search the web in hopes somebody had done it for you.

Fast forward to recent times, if you had to do devops where PHP was involved in some way, you would have felt remi was a guy that should be receiving free beer. Explain why we have arrived to that sort of situations.

Luckily nowadays, the world seems to have centered around Ubuntu, from Docker to whatnot, which makes everybody target Ubuntu at least. But to this day, I'm still a very fond user of Gentoo, even if the compile everything from source approach is a bit crazy, and its latest reincarnation, Funtoo, precisely because it gives me a machine that has everything I need when the time comes to deal with "the package not in my package manager" TM.