Which distro takes longer to build gentoo or LFS
 

what's up,

Has anyone ever built both of these distros and know which one takes longer to built.

LFS. You build everything from scratch ( hence the name Linux From Scratch )

thanks. I guess I try gentoo first on a spare computer.

I've got a question in relevance to this. If you're building LFS, what if you build rpm or dpkg, and then yum/zipper or apt. Would that make a potential shortcut?

With LFS you don'r have the benefit of repositories to find software. Apart from a few sources hosted by LFS, you have to find sources for everything yourself. With Gentoo you have their repositories which helps simplify things.

LFS is great for learning, and a wonderful exercise, though, certainly for me, just keeping the system up to date became a full time job. If you are building a system that you actually want to use, go for Gentoo.

That's not to say LFS can't be used as a day to day system (many people do), but I found it too demanding on my time for that.