Hi OneidaM, I saw a similar thread on computers. I took some posts from tehre, did "search and replaced" for word "Computer" with "man", yeah and I did some more changes.
1. Most people clone a MAN, when they say, they are building a new MAN. If you want your own MAN, it is not going to be easy to build from scratch.
2. Before you start, put down why you need this man and what you want him to do. Makes it easier to shop.
3. Only time you need to build your own man is, if you want someone very different from the ones on the shelf, when you have some special program for him man to do that any normal man will not do or you want to know everything about this MAN and you have a lot of money and time to kill.
3. It always costs less to go with the off the shelf men, than to try to build your own. If you have any problems after you get this off the shelf man, you will have good support to get over this problem.
4. Some people will claim that MAC, I mean GAY, men are perfect. But they are a very small minority and they are groupies. They look glittery, do a lot of fancy stuff useless stuff, will go shopping with you, share your nail polish, etc, but will not be useful for basic functions that you need a MAN for. To top it all they are expensive.
5. If you find a good MAN you like, go ahead and get him. There are always new models, better ones around the corner. If you keeping waiting for THE BEST, you will end up waiting for ever.
I am sure there are more posts in that thread that may answer your question. Good luck on your search ;-)