That isn&#x27;t what gentoo was &quot;all about&quot; 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.<p>full disclosure: used to be a gentoo dev &#x2F; am currently an Exherbo (rolling release&#x2F;source distro) Dev.