You can use the Guix package manager on top of any distribution and get declarative builds. https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-pac

You can use the Guix package manager on top of any distribution and get declarative builds. https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.html https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-... Like the main GNU page says, it's not distribution ready, but it's close. In fact if you run it on top of Arch (just install the minimal requirements via pacman, then defer to guix) or Alpine you've pretty much got your minimal distribution with declarative package management.