M.Canales.es wrote: > El Miércoles, 15 de Agosto de 2007 19:17, George Boudreau escribió: >> Manuel, >> >> Should jhalfs have an opinion on Jeremy's idea? >> >> If they go ahead with this we could change the structure of jhalfs >> from a the current huge makefile to a package manager driver in the >> final stage. > > To be usefull for developers, jhalfs must be keeped as closed as possible to > the books commands. If the book includes PM support, jhalfs will include it > by defalt. > > With the current Bash&XSL-based code, to add a PM without having a base > support in the book might need very intrusive changes. Plus, if the case that > the selected PM need estra spec files for each package, who will maintain > they? > > Yes from a user point of view PM support will be very cool, the question is > what to use and how implement it without breaking by-the-book builds. > So far, the least objectioned change to the LFS-Book is to simply add as an end user option for a system variable "$DESTDIR" which enables most package managers. The BLFS or a new project on Package Managers would then have more on the options for PMs and steps to build one, starting with the $DESTDIR variable if the reader implemented it in LFS.
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