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> I did it once manually over a couple of days. Sounds like a speedrun of the tutorial. How did you approach packaging then and what system did you use to comp
by blablabla123 11d ago
> I did it once manually over a couple of days.
Sounds like a speedrun of the tutorial. How did you approach packaging then and what system did you use to compile everything?
I did the tutorial in the late 2000s I think and it took me 4-6 months if I remember correctly. At the time I wasn't completely new to Linux but setting up things like the boot loader was quite tricky for me.
For me the main motivation was getting a deeper understanding, being able to fine tune and customize my system. Of course I didn't go blindly through the tutorial but only did steps that I understood. (In case something goes wrong) Also I started to use (x)stow for everything.
- shevy-java 11d agoIt is possible to do it over a few days really, even with not too much knowledge. Requiring four months seems as if it was a side project, which is of course totally fine, but for any main task it really should not take more than a few days, even on a semi-slow computer (well, depends on how slow).
- blablabla123 11d agoWell as mentioned it was in the 2000s. Compiling KDE alone took several days. Also there was no automation/script, so you really had to go to ftp.gnu.org and look in which folder the coreutils package is ;) I realize there's now a list of packages with checksums
- IslandRebel 11d agoI did it in a VM took me 20 hours. Most of that time was waiting for things to compile and fixing mistakes I made because I didn't read the instructions properly.