My two cents. I'm on my second installation of lfs/blfs, and this time my goal was to expand on what I had learned before and make the system more manageable. This included installing and using a package manager of some sort. I considered package_users, apt, portage, rpm, and yast. Apt and Portage were easily my favorites for the simplicity of Apt and the ability of Portage to install from source (seems fitting right?) After thinking about it, it occured to me that installing Portage would effectively make my system a Gentoo system rather than an LFS system. I then came across a hint for apt that describes how to install Debian via the package manager alone. It then occured to me that all great distributions seem to be defined by their package manager (Red Hat - rpm, Slackware - Tarball, Debian - Apt, Gentoo - Portage, Suse - Yast), I then decided that LFS is a great distribution and package_users was unique to LFS. I'm using the hint for more_control_package_users and I am quite happy. I think the best thing about package_users is that I understand what it's doing and how it works without too much trouble. This makes it easy for me to customize, which I think LFS is all about.
Anyways, that's how I recently came to my decision of which PM to use. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
