Wow, this brings back memories form the days LFS was just starting. I think I have my LFS home-made CDs with source and binary tarballs in '99 and 2000: I've go

Wow, this brings back memories form the days LFS was just starting. I think I have my LFS home-made CDs with source and binary tarballs in '99 and 2000: I've got tired of building everything and chasing dependencies and packages by 2001 so I moved to, ahem, Slackware. I've only switched to a reasonable distribution when Ubuntu came out and it tracked GNOME which I contributed to. But LFS was a wonderful learning opportunity for me: it allows you to build an understanding of the nitty-gritty bits of the system, but hurdles one has to overcome are very painful for a daily system. I think things have improved a lot in early 2000s when better build scripts were introduced and you actually had links to packages you needed: back before that, there was no way anyone would build a LFS system over a weekend, as I see people reporting here (not the least because most Internet access was dial-up). So first up: have time and desire to learn. I would probably appreciate re-doing this with systemd to really internalize how things have changed from the inittab days.