i would just like to say that as a college student, I built my first LFS because i was trying to build kernels myself in mepis, kept failing, and i thought it was all my fault until while building LFS finding out that the official kernel documentation was outdated. Since building LFS(with a little help from this list,) i have since moved to gentoo mainly because portage just takes the work out of everything for me, and i seem to be able to configure everything the way I like, just as in LFS, i just don't have to muck with the details every time, so its a lot faster. Also, it got hard when i kept building LFS and my only package manager was a txt file. I definitely appreciate the experience and the project, i learned a lot that helps me in my current job(as an intern for some linux systems programmers, who are making me learn c, and yes, its painful, i come from a javacentric background.) So, along with my thanks, and encouragement to people trying to build LFS for the first time to keep at it until they have it(once your done you really won't think that it was that hard in hindsight, and you will be able to do your second build much much easier) i just want to ask the list if i missed something about LFS, if my perception of it as opposed to gentoo is valid or not.
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