Attention Benny Pedersen,

 BP> impressed you still not using gentoo :)

Both the silvermont (this box) and the bonnell are still using the so-called
bastardized Slackware-ish/LFS 'distribution' Maurice likes to call medevil.  It
has been deployed here for around 20 years now and looks to be a survivor.  It
is still sysvinit based unlike most other Linux distributions these days which
many hardcore Linux people, including Maurice, favour over the systemd based
ones.  It works like a charm.  However the bonnell hasn't been brought up to
date and it might wait until the release of glibc-2.28 or shortly thereafter. 
At this moment there are fatal issues with m4, gzip and findutils with respect
to the currently frozen glibc-2.27.9000 which is the latest candidate for the
soonish glibc-2.28 release.  At the heart of the problem is gnulib which with a
bit of tweaking can be fixed by deploying findutils-1.9a.685-d69f-dirty and
gzip-1.9.4-9ef6-dirty, but no such luck following the exact same strategy with
m4-1.4.18.2-10237-dirty or even a more daring m4-1.9a.685-d69f-dirty.  In all
cases the same gnulib git source was deployed.

 BP> --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/4.17.11-gentoo (x86_64))

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Linux mikey 4.17.11 #1 SMP Sat Jul 28 17:49:41 UTC 2018 x86_64 Intel(R)
Atom(TM) CPU C2758 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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End transmission.

... Fudd's First Law of Opposition:
    If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.
--- GNU bash, version 4.4.23(1)-release (x86_64-silvermont-linux-gnu)