In the end we end up trusting our own compilers, which means it's the same as compiling from source. So why not make it easier to install packages from source? Write a quick script for `abs' and alike?
In regard to making it easier to install and compile packages from source, I believe this is what the build server aspect is partially addressing.
I would like to think that anyone can run the same build server software to compile the same packages for parabola.
As I have already stated, this would be useful for offline work, or where there is a bad internet connection.
But if anyone can compile the packages using the same software, then this also works towards reproducibility too. As (if I understand correctly) the purpose of reproducible builds is to compare two binaries to see if they are identical, that means users have to be able to compile the packages in the first place. So these two goals are not mutually exclusive, one compliments the other.
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