On 5/15/06, Kevin Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My thought was to start with the LFS system, but it seems too tied to building a machine for me to use. For that, its FANTASTIC (though I have been less than successful in getting a working system with 6.1.1). So getting back to my original question, I can't be the first person that has wanted to build a more simplified machine, and the automated tools should make it easier to build, so has anyone already built a configuration file that will allow me to build a simplified machine that I can tailor even further to our requirements?
It seems as though you really need to roll your own distro, and the tools here aren't completely up to that task. One major reason for that is once you get beyond the base system (and even within the base system), there are a million and one options, so there is not really a unified solution here. After all, the motto is "Your Distro. Your Rules." You'll probably need to build your own system that puts in place your specific applications and configuration. Without even knowing what your preferences are, I guarantee you mine are different. Same with everyone else here. Back to actually implementing your own system. The problem of only installing end user applications means that you have to define -devel packages. This is exactly how the big boys do it. Unfortunately, this means you have to audit each package, deciding with binaries/headers/libraries to exclude. It's a lot of work, and something that makes LFS a lot easier. We just install everything from a package. A lot of the tools here can be extended to automate packages. jhalfs will sometime in the future be extended to pull the commands from the BLFS book. At some point, though, you've gotta do the work. Or, just use a distro like Ubuntu, and pick a set of packages for your mom so she's only got one web browser and one email client. It's certainly possible, but the means to that end are so varied that there isn't one solution that works for everyone. Hence why people come to LFS in the first place. They want to decide that means on their own and not have it decided for them. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
