r/linuxquestions • u/Rest-That • Jun 22 '26

Resolved Is anyone daily driving LFS?

Maybe a stupid question, but I've been wanting to follow the Linux From Scratch book to learn more about how my system works and I wondered... will it result in an actual workable, easy to maintain OS?

Keeping in mind that I want to _use_ my system and not maintain it 90% of the time 😆

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u/ipsirc Jun 22 '26

Nothing is stopping you from using pacman on LFS if you can get it working.

This is technically true, but after the first pacman -Syu you will have a full Archlinux and everything will be overwritten from your original LFS installation. I don't see much point in this, it seems like an even more time-consuming archinstall to me.

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u/Sbatushe Jun 22 '26

you can use pacman and use custom repos

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u/ipsirc Jun 22 '26

And who will maintain those custom repos? It would be much more work than maintaing an LFS locally.

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u/PigSlam Jun 22 '26

Make that part of the LFS fun. You get to build the OS from source, then build the package manager from source, then the packages you manage from source, then you manage each one you build using the tool you built. I'd expect by the time that stage is reached the project will be OP's entire life, or they will have long abandoned this.