[nzlug] Kernel squared

[Glenn Enright]

On Friday 29 September 2006 11:30, Dirk Pilat wrote:
> I was going to come to that next: Has anybody ever attempted a Linux
> from Scratch install?
>
> It looks perversely tempting but also hugely daunting, but I presume
> the educational gain must be immense. No more stupid questions on
> NZLUG after that.
Exactly what you said. Its fun for a short time, but then using it long 
term becomes an increasing burden because of the lack of package 
management. Uninstalling something can turn into a nightmare. Updates 
may not be clean because of old stuff sitting around. Thats why portage 
and gentoo :). Much of the docs on gentoo and LFS web sites are 
compatible as a result...
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