The ALFS side-project may be a nice way to bootstrap a new distro though. Basically it automates the process of building a LFS install via the use of scripts that parse the LFS book markup.
I'm following a distro, Gobolinux, that used that to bootstrap their latest release. And supposedly it took more time to get the Consolekit+polkit+whatever rigamarole working so it could offer a desktop.
Arch Linux = Apple
Arch "Learn more about Linux" is a indirect effect of running Arch and well LFS whole purpose.
Arch = Great Linux Distro (My second favorite to my distro home OpenSUSE)
LFS = Learning tool that is not necessarily for production machines.