On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 10:49:24PM +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > I thought it would be easier to follow a set of commands rather than a > descriptive sentence (if you had the choice between two).
The given examples only provide commands in order to make clear that they need to be unpacked in the current directory. Freetype appears to be the exception, but when it comes right down to it it's a case of author preference. BLFS is descriptive by nature, it exists to _teach_ you why you're doing things, it doesn't just throw a bunch of commands at you and say, "follow these and it will be done". Personally I think it's insulting to the users to state explicitly such an obvious command. Catering for auto-build scripts is not our forte, and if a user wishes to use such a thing then they would do so without our support. However, at the end of the day Randy has the final word, and if he says we should cater for auto-build then we will.
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