From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4QZ8-0006Y6-3j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:02:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7ELxO8A018673; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:59:24 GMT Received: from smtp102.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp102.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.103]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7ELqBbd014884 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:52:11 GMT Received: (qmail 28225 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2005 21:52:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.100?) (menola@sbcglobal.net@68.79.205.144 with plain) by smtp102.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Aug 2005 21:52:33 -0000 From: Joe Menola To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives? Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:52:44 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <6C3F87F2-A3F1-47A5-A18E-A3632967B781@mac.com> <200508141605.23088.menola@sbcglobal.net> <20050815093622.EFBA.NICK@rout.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20050815093622.EFBA.NICK@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508141652.44370.menola@sbcglobal.net> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7ELqBbd014884 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j7ELxO8U018673 X-Archives-Salt: b51ff01c-9cf9-4af3-a55e-f820cd1ada55 X-Archives-Hash: bb34891d78dbd7788a9dac6434d0734d On Sunday August 14 2005 4:37 pm, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:05:22 -0500 > > Joe Menola wrote: > > On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: > > > Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly > > > support the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does an= y > > > one have any perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo > > > point-of-view? Does anyone wish to share a=A0comparison of the two? > > > > I've built both Gentoo and LFS. A side by side comparison comes up pr= etty > > much equal. Except for documentation, where Gentoo wins hands down. I= MO > > Well given that LFS is nothing but documentation ( along howto), that > doesn't leave much... When an app doesn't compile, the 1 page howto doesn't help much, seeing a= s how=20 you probably already followed it. -jm --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list