1. Learn a bit about #BLAS / #LAPACK packaging for dayjob.
2. Learn that #MKL in #Gentoo is quite outdated. Take it over, bump it and improve the packaging.
3. Get curious about #FlexiBLAS. Start playing with it. Package it for #Gentoo.
4. Learn that runtime BLAS / LAPACK switching is quite broken. Come up with a FlexiBLAS transition plan and a proof-of-concept.
5. Notice inconsistency in ILP64 support flags. Propose unifying the behavior.
6. Learn that BLAS / LAPACK packages in Gentoo are pretty much unmaintained.

Well, looks like I'm the new maintainer of the whole stack, I'm working on consistent ILP64 support now, and then I'll have to rebase the FlexiBLAS transition bits.

@mgorny Thanks for tackling it. It's one of those things I was really hoping someone else could get to ;)

I enjoy being (one of) the maintainers of last resort but it's not great all the time.