On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:48:28 -0600 Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:17:24 -0600 > > Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not opposed to adding a section on scripting packages. Chapter 2 > seems to be the appropriate place for that. This seems a worthwhile project, I'll take a look at it. ( invites contributions ) > As far as Xorg7 goes, there are two aspects to consider. The first is > the LFS user who has no X installed. Most users will want to build > everything at first. If a user is quite experienced, then he might > want to build a subset of Xorg. Good thinking - I'd not considered these aspects. > The second user is someone who has X installed and only wants to > update a specific package or small set of packages. > > I think the right approach for BLFS is to provide a relatively > efficient set of instructions that builds everything This implies a script to my mind, or at least a big chunk to be C&P. I'm not a fan of big-chunk C&P though - it's too easy to miss subtle things. It would be even better if any script was upstream supported - there must be projects on this. As a question, can one build 6.9.0 and then use the 7.0 packages to update parts of it? Do Xorg forsee a Garnome-like installer for Xorg-7.+ ? It would seem to be important. > and also provide > a discussion on how to build individual packages. This later > explanation should be something like the explanation in the Perl > Modules section where there is a generic set of instructions for the > packages. Yes, the Perl modules page is a good model - it's exactly what I was getting at. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
