On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:47, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:12, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:22, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:13:13 +1200, you wrote: > > > >On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 16:50, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > >> The way I look at is that if you really want to know how Linux works > > > >> and to use it to your advantage, then you should do everything once > > > >> the hard way. Then you actually get an idea of what's happening. > > > > > > > >Are you, per chance, suggesting a Linux From Scratch InstallFest? > > > > > > > >http://www.au.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/news.html > > > > > > > >Now that's a real learning experience! > > > > > > I've done it... but, like I said, just the once (: > > > > > > However, I do get very frustrated by the dependencies generated by rpm > > > and the like. I find that building from tar sources safer... at least > > > you know what's running on your server, which is vital in a production > > > environment. > > > > coupled with a good package management system that works very well. I > > don't know how keen I would be on an entirely source based system without > > the packaging system in gentoo! > > I'm not for one moment suggesting that people should chuck out Gentoo, far > from it, but I do think that installing LFS _once_ might be both an > interesting and a worthwhile exercise. To quote Steve "you actually get an > idea of what's happening".
Its interesting to find a "distro" that contains no machine readable files. IE its just a book of instructions. I have never read much of the LFS book before, but it is making interesting reading, between Crusaders' tries :-) I just not sure how much I really need to know about gcc bootstrapping itself.
