I liked LFS, it was the first distro I ever installed that didn't annoy me with "What? What's all this crap been installed for?!" But the lack of a package man

I liked LFS, it was the first distro I ever installed that didn't annoy me with "What? What's all this crap been installed for?!" But the lack of a package manager prompted me to move on to Gentoo. I keep meaning to give it another go, never seem to have the time..