On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 11:12:11 +0100, KatolaZ wrote in message <20181203101211.r7bp2l4nnid7b...@katolaz.homeunix.net>:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 09:49:06AM +0000, g4sra wrote: > > [cut] > > > Has anyone here have actual practical experience of using LFS to > > build anything moderate (or larger). If so, how much work did it > > take and was the effort worth it in the long run, were there any > > shortcomings ? > > I have used LFS several times in the last 20 years. In most of the > cases, just to cross-compile for another machine for which any other > distro would have been just too much. LFS is a great way of learning > how a Linux system works under the hood. Once you learn stuff from > LFS, you can customise almost anything in almost any distro for almost > any personal use case. > > However, I think LFS it's not a particularly good solution for > everyday use, but this depends a lot on what is your definition of > "everyday use". You'd probably better suited with something like > gentoo or Slackware, maybe (but they are both using initramfs in their > default installs, AFAIK :P). Or learn from LFS and continue using > Devuan with your personal tweaks :) ..but maybe we can use LFS to shanghai people into Devuan by hijacking their LiveCD?: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/ "needs" a fix, LFS moved on without it: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/news.html even mentions a systemd version of the book, "LFS-systemd"... -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
