Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flags

[Thomas Mueller]

> Best way I ever found to learn how things really work under the hood is
> to build a Linux From Scratch and pay close attention to every single step.

> Not that you'd ever actually *use* that system - there's no sane package
> management for a start - but after building an LFS, the content of
> ebuilds in @system starts to make a lot more sense; you can see why some
> of the decisions in the profiles were made; and make.conf now appears in
> a whole new light.

> Then take the valuable lessons from LFS and apply them appropriately to
> using Gentoo. These things are tools and the best workmen are always
> very familiar with their tools as a co-ordinated whole (as opposed to a
> bunch of mish-mash stuff cluttering up a toolbox)

> Alan McKinnon

One could build a system with LFS or CLFS and then adopt one or more package managemant systems such as Gentoo portage, pacman with Arch Build System, voidlinux, etc.

Different package management systems would go to separate installations, separate partitions, of course.

Lack of package management, or actually package management that had no recognition of dependencies, was a large part of what made me not continue with Slackware beyond now-outdated 13.0.

I was spoiled by FreeBSD ports, NetBSD pkgsrc, and Linux distros with package management that recognized dependencies.

Tom