> At this point, I might as well run Linux from scratch...
You might as well learn the Debian tooling and run a system with the OpenSSL package patched with a build-time change.
On Ubuntu, that'd be the same as maintaining a PPA with one source package in it. On Debian, it's effectively the same except that you'll need reprepro or a script around apt-ftparchive instead.
This is far easier than your hyperbole of running Linux from scratch.
You might as well learn the Debian tooling and run a system with the OpenSSL package patched with a build-time change.
On Ubuntu, that'd be the same as maintaining a PPA with one source package in it. On Debian, it's effectively the same except that you'll need reprepro or a script around apt-ftparchive instead.
This is far easier than your hyperbole of running Linux from scratch.