It's easier than building something without dependencies from scratch with Visual C++ :-)
I built an LFS system when it came out years ago and it was a good learning exercise. That's the cool thing here. I wouldn't consider using the system from day to day though.
I agree with your sentiment though. A recent attempt to get sstp-client and NetworkManager-sstp working on CentOS 6.3 resulted in a long stompy walk when I couldn't get it to build without breaking the distribution due to dependency hell. I just chucked Ubuntu on the box in the end and used the vendor provided deb packages. Was much easier :-)
I built an LFS system when it came out years ago and it was a good learning exercise. That's the cool thing here. I wouldn't consider using the system from day to day though.
I agree with your sentiment though. A recent attempt to get sstp-client and NetworkManager-sstp working on CentOS 6.3 resulted in a long stompy walk when I couldn't get it to build without breaking the distribution due to dependency hell. I just chucked Ubuntu on the box in the end and used the vendor provided deb packages. Was much easier :-)