Randy McMurchy wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 06/15/05 09:43 CST: > > >>Still, if it's felt that the text is misleading, that could probably be >>done with a for loop and a sed. (As long as the files are consistent.) > > > Hey, I'm all for improvement, if something needs it. But, please > sensibly make an argument how it is confusing that we say "install > the package using the following commands" > > A bunch of commands are listed. However, before a couple of the > commands, we say to be root. How is that confusing? > > Please, give me something to go on. > > We don't say which commands build and which commands install. Why > is it being perceived that way?
I don't feel the way we are going is confusing anyone. The orginal bug, 847, was filed a year ago. We have been going through the packages for quite a wile. As Randy said, it was not done arbitrarily. We had some discussion about it. The header says: Installation of X. This is a process: configure; make; su root; make install; exit. The su root and exit are implied because there are several ways to change to root. We use non-specific text instead. The whole idea is to get away from being root all the time. The process we have supoprts that. There is nothing prventing a user from ignoring the advice and doing everything as root. Let's leave the title and the changing to root as we have it. I would add one caveat. On some packages we need to jump from regular user to root and back a couple of times. In these cases, some variation in the text about changing to root is appropriate. For example, see thunderbird. BTW, bug 847 says Randy is going to write a lead-in for this issue in Chapter 2 and then close the bug. I suggest updating the "Notes on Building Software" section in Chapter 2. I have not done a comprehensive check to see if the "As root" paragraph as been added to every package, but it would be nice to close this old bug. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
