Alright, even with ALFS my system is taking 5+ hours to create each time I compile it. I’m still working through the (lack of) documentation, but I still think this is the best route to go so far.
While I’m waiting for the rebuild, which I get 1 or 2 a day right now. I’m working on my ALFS and thinking of how I want to use the beyond LFS as well. I know that the BLFS profiles are going to be of great help for Apache and a few other packages that I’m going to need, but I will most likely have to create a few of my own profiles of things like CLisp.
I’ve also been putting some more though into the email meta data, a little into what I want to have in it and a bit on the structure. I’m not sure if I mentioned that I want it to end up in XML, but I do, and even though I always intend to keep the original MIME email messages (I’ll need them to pass to other systems) the anti-spam system that I am creating will use the XML meta data internally.