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Conjuring a Linux distribution out of thin air
A few days ago I got a new laptop and once again had to make a choice of what distribution to install
I did build a small Debian derivative distro before just to avoid re-doing all the config for all machines but that's just adding an extra repository to an existing distribution. In the ALFS installer I picked the systemd option since I didn't want to deal with openrc again and ended up with a nice functional rootfs to work in. For this package made the script that built the current APKBUILD using the abuild subcommands and generated a neat local repository so apk could install the files.
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