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Resolving a complex case of circular dependencies (a recurring experience on Gentoo, not a deal-breaker, but makes updates tricky sometimes. Typically it's something like GPM depends on ncurses which depends on GPM, just one-shot reinstall ncurses without mouse support then update as normal - but sometimes the circle involves three or four packages)
Getting a Brother USB scanner to work (These things suck. The wireless ones are driver-less like most modern printers, but the USB scanners require proprietary drivers which are only officially distributed for Debian and Red Hat. brscan5 is in neither the Gentoo or third party brother-overlay repository - someone did put together a functional ebuild though)
Been a while since I fucked with it, but I need to revisit getting a multi-drive bcachefs with encryption as the root filesystem working. Systemd still does not support the multi-drive fstab syntax introduced by util-linux, but I think the bcachefs tools now have a workaround.