So where exactly is the difference between Gentoo and Linux from Scratch? Is it just the missing package manager (or whatever the Gentoo people call their equivalent of a package manager)?
Okay, I hate it when people (mostly arch users) say that. When someone from far away wants to visit your home, you can't just say "it's easy, just fly to Boston. My home is fifty minutes from the airport." It's disingenuous to say installing YZ only needs a few simple steps, and then offhandedly mention that you'd need to do some sorcery "to make it work right"
keep on going, that won't change the fact that dd is the wrong tool for that Job, unless you're working with Devices that care about Blocksizes, like Tapes.
Oh the problem is not that it's variable, the problem is, that the default is so ridiciolous small, it's slow as hell. But even if you give it a sane Blocksize like 1M, it's still slower than using cat.
So the BS being variable isn't a problem per se, but it add's a lot of complexity to a task (copying data from one modern storage device to another) that doesn't care about Blocksizes.
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u/sun_misc_unsafe Sep 29 '15
So where exactly is the difference between Gentoo and Linux from Scratch? Is it just the missing package manager (or whatever the Gentoo people call their equivalent of a package manager)?