Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > I've noticed that the configuration of the X Window System packages > has been moved to a new section titled "X Window System Components". > > Why was it done this way? This makes the X Window System packages > completely different than all the other packages in the book. Nowhere > else in the book is the installation (configuration is part of > installation) spread out over different pages. > > I don't include the cases like Subversion client and server being > separated the same, as these pages serve distinct and different > purposes. But the X Window System *requires* configuration before > it will work. Why is this moved off into a section that doesn't even > accurately describe it? > > I must admit I have not kept up with the development of the book in > regards to the X stuff, but this new way of jumping around to > different pages to do a simple installation is weird. > > If the goal was to consolidate the material, it should have been put > in an "Xinclude" and the been included in each X package in the > configuration section. The book's XML now has a separate directory > for these "Xincluded" files, so it would be really easy to do this. > It takes all of one line on each page and then we'd have the > instructions the same as everything else in the book.
In this case, we have three packages that do the same thing. No one will ever install more than one (I hope!). The configuration instructions are very similar between the instances of X, but not identical. I don't think an Xinclude would work here. I believe that X, especially Xorg7, is the most complex installation in the book. OO and Java come close, but there is at least only one of each of those. I think DJ has come up with a resonable compromise where users can compare/contrast the configuration of the packages easier than if they were on different pages. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
