On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:42:07AM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > There are no BLFS Editors complaining about the maintenance or > upkeep of the book, as it stands right now. Bruce is asking the > group what should be the best way to go forward with the *additional* > work.
Pay me enough to quit my job and I'll devote 8 hour days to the project. :) > 3) After the wiki instructions are known good, stable and well > tested, it is trivial for BLFS editors to migrate the information > to the book. I don't have hard and fast solutions. I am skeptical of wiki's. If so many people have this info, why don't they send xml patches, or even text to this list saying such and such is known good, or I tested this package with these switches and these deps. And what about hints documents? For one thing, Randy, you seem to test everything possible with a package, at least as far as installing goes. Take gaim, for an example. Joe User grabs it, looks at ./configure --help or reads the README, whatever. He determines that alsa, esound, libao, and gtk2 will do for him what he wants. He ignores gnutls because he doesn't have an MSN account. His instructions may work very well, but it won't support a big piece of functionality. Does this help us any? How much time will be needed to verify prior to inclusion into the book? Will it be considerably less than what it takes now to build and test instructions? Again, I don't know, u8ust throwing out some thoughts and wondering why people aren't writing hints or patches, or even emails if they have this info ready to go. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
