I think your statements are way to general. With LFS you do have to monkey around at the most elemental levels to get a bootable system. With Lunar-Linux you don't have to do that. I don't see the real advantage there. Especially since you almost always end up with a sysvinit type environment anyway. So at most that point is moot.
Nor would I say using SRPMS is exactly the same as using bash scripts (like Lunar-Linux uses) though they do acheive the same results. Though I see little difference in the end results of the method used by LFS. In any case your just talking about differenct package management systems. Which road you take is personal choice.
My personal systems run Lunar-Linux and I have learned a great deal from the "scripts". Some of that is realated to it's method of package management but a lot also about compiling and installing source based software fresh from the author(s).
Having used several RPM base distros and I was very surprised at the differences in the look/feel, menu layout, etc of KDE (as an example) when I compiled it on Lunar-Linux. It then dawned on me that what I was looking at was how the original authors intended it to look. I've since grown a slight displeasure of the RPM based distros interpretation of life, universe and everything.
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Re:Source-based "barebones" distros
Posted by: Stumbles on June 05, 2005 09:58 PMNor would I say using SRPMS is exactly the same as using bash scripts (like Lunar-Linux uses) though they do acheive the same results. Though I see little difference in the end results of the method used by LFS. In any case your just talking about differenct package management systems. Which road you take is personal choice.
My personal systems run Lunar-Linux and I have learned a great deal from the "scripts". Some of that is realated to it's method of package management but a lot also about compiling and installing source based software fresh from the author(s).
Having used several RPM base distros and I was very surprised at the differences in the look/feel, menu layout, etc of KDE (as an example) when I compiled it on Lunar-Linux. It then dawned on me that what I was looking at was how the original authors intended it to look. I've since grown a slight displeasure of the RPM based distros interpretation of life, universe and everything.
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