What's the point in using Gentoo? I understand that everything is built from source, but what's the purpose of that?

Freedom and customizability?

@PrivateGER but you get that with other distros

Because "hur dur your going to change things in a completely foreign code base and waste countless hours!"

Yeah, nah, not for me. That shit sounds retarded

@j4cobgarby No, not in that way.

I speak English, so I disabled NLS in all packages. Additionally, all packages supporting the following will compile with (+) or without (-) it:
+bluetooth
+pulseaudio
+i3
+git
+zsh-completion
+vim-scripts
+offensive ;)
+flac
+ffmpeg
+wifi
+unicode
+sound
+threads
-alsa
-X
-nls

it's something when you know what every single entry of lsmod is and what happens on every run level and when your system boots in 6 seconds flat (excluding BIOS)... but for me I see gentoo more as a learning experience than a system I'd use day to day, I don't have three days right now to set it up right now :P

TL;DR : it's good for some cases with all its configuration

I used gentoo for some weird no-name server blades and the whole configure it as you need concept that gentoo is based on saved a great amount of performance, not to mention the reduced clusterfuck that it had prior.
Bottom line if you need a kind of lfs and have to spin it up quite fast gentoo is a go to distro