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Reproducible builds are a specific use case and should be covered by user-space utilities, not the system itself.
There's no point in using a source based distro if you just want to have official repo packages and don't need to integrate your own programs into the system. Overlays let you have your own ebuild repositories with ease.
Oh, the horror, gentoo compiles a lot! Anyway...
That's not a system's problem, that's a tranny infestation X1.
That's not a system's problem, that's a tranny infestation X2.
For desktop use flags control which primary gui widget you're going to use, this affects the general look of your graphical system. They control support for X11/Wayland. They tell you which files your mpv and ffmpeg is going to support. Etc etc.
-Os, and if you really don't want to have build dependencies there's always an option to use a build server.
That's not a system's problem, that's a tranny infestation X3.
That's not a system's problem, that's a tranny infestation X4.
Openrc sucks so much Alpine, the container distro, uses it. Cope.
That's not a system's problem, that's a tranny infestation X5.
The "stable" branch is running latests releases of programs, why do you need "unstable"? If you need bleeding-edge, 9999 ebuilds just work.
That's not a system's problem, that's a tranny infestation X6.
Original authors are gay. See debian, void.
Regardless, if you're satisfied with guix, then it's good for you. I'm fine with my choice, you're fine with yours. To each their own.