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		exe34 on Oct 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux from Scratch > building an actual usable distro "from scratch". could you say a few words on how this would avoid building and installing the required software individually? are you thinking of osdev instead?

creatonez on Oct 5, 2024 [–]

I assume they were alluding to package managers, automation, and release engineering, which are somewhat covered in the LFS Hints Project (https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/)

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