I know that IPFire is built following the LFS model through a custom bash script. I guess you all know about the “Yocto Project” and “Buildroot”, which are getting a lot of traction these days, so I wonder if they were considered and excluded, or otherwise if they could become useful for future IPFire development (e.g. version 3).
Hello Luca,
we have considered this a few times in the past. But we always come to the conclusion that these projects - although they are great - would not cover our requirements. We would essentially create a fork of them which would tie us to their build systems and their changes.
Instead we are running a way more powerful and tailored build system ourselves. This is hugely beneficial to our use-case, and has served us very well over the years.
Obviously we have a vast list of potential improvements, but would need time to implement them all.
-Michael