Alan Lord wrote: > There have been other threads similar to this and I wonder if there is > something not quite right about the whole discussion... > > It seems to me that there are many individuals who have learned and > loved the whole LFS/BLFS experience (I count myself in this group BTW). > I have found, and it seems so have others, that there comes a point when > it becomes too hard (or time consuming) to continue living with the pure > LFS/BLFS distro for day-to-day tasks. That's why I use Ubuntu on my > desktop. > > Perhaps - and this is an idea for discussion and a good "Pipe Dream" - > that there should be another member of the *LFS family... Perhaps MLFS > where the M stood for Managed, or PLFS for Packaged LFS. And let's get > the community to somehow use and develop the fantastic work done in the > LFS and BLFS books and create a version that is basically LFS and *your* > BLFS with some kind of package management control. > > Is this a stupid idea? Is this Gentoo?
It's either Gentoo or Slackware. I use LFS for my main system and have for years. The main thing is that just about every package can be updated in place with the possible exception of glibc. One reason I put the section about installing kde and qt in /opt into BLFS is to allow building in place with the option of backing up if it is needed. For a useful system, you don't always have to update to the latest and greatest. I still have production servers running LFS basically unchanged from December 2003. The kernel is 2.4.5. glibc is 2.3.2. There is no need to update. # du -sh /bin /dev /etc /lib /opt /root /sbin /usr /var 3.1M /bin 44K /dev 2.9M /etc 3.6M /lib 8.7M /opt 32K /root 3.0M /sbin 362M /usr 385M /var No X, no bloat. Works. Try getting Ubuntu or RedHat or SUsE down to that size. -- Bruce P.S. The system above also boots to the command prompt in about 15 seconds, not that booting is required often. The uptime right now is 245 days. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
