I remember doing this all the way back in 2000 on an old Toshiba Tecra 500CDT with a 90Mhz Pentium. Not sure I ever got as far as being able to run startx, beca

I remember doing this all the way back in 2000 on an old Toshiba Tecra 500CDT with a 90Mhz Pentium. Not sure I ever got as far as being able to run startx, because every time I'd come up with more and more weird filesystem ideas (what if every package had its own separate hierarchy and we just linked things centrally? etc etc). I do think this is a good education, although realistically I think you will learn as much (and probably more) on Arch these days, especially if you have to create your own AUR packages for some reason.