[ale] The bad thing about RPMs

[Fulton Green]

This must be the newer trend ... the "compile-as-you-update" distros.
Sorcerer claims to do this as well, and it's now shot up to near the top
of the DistroWatch.com popularity ranking. 'course, that may be 'cuz
Sorcerer doesn't exactly have an intutitive URL ( http://Sorcerer.wox.org/ )

So what are the major points of distinction between LFS, Gentoo and
Sorcerer?

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:00:08AM -0500, Mark Hurley wrote:
> Just wanted to comment on the "Linux From Scratch".  I've seen it
> mentioned several times by a few others.  Rather than do the painful
> LFS you can always grab the "Gentoo" installation.
> 
> Gentoo basically has scripts that grab the actual 'tar.gz' from the
> various websites and compiles everything from source.  I actually
> tested it a few months ago, while it took a long time, it ran nicely
> on the 1Gz...then again what wouldn't! ;)

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