Have you tried out Exherbo? In many ways it is an improvement over Gentoo (disclaimer: I used to be a Gentoo developer ~10 years ago, still am an Exherbo dev).

Have you tried out Exherbo? In many ways it is an improvement over Gentoo (disclaimer: I used to be a Gentoo developer ~10 years ago, still am an Exherbo dev). It might feel familiar because the package manager, paludis, also works as a package manager for Gentoo. But the package format has numerous additional features and the distribution does as well.