That isn't what gentoo was "all about" at all -- certainly there were ricers who claimed that as an advantage. The main innovation was the much-improved customi

That isn't what gentoo was "all about" at all -- certainly there were ricers who claimed that as an advantage. The main innovation was the much-improved customizability of each package (USE flags), something I would note Arch still does not have. There were ancillary benefits of being a source distro like interesting cross compiling use cases. full disclosure: used to be a gentoo dev / am currently an Exherbo (rolling release/source distro) Dev.