DJ Lucas wrote these words on 05/16/06 20:16 CST: > I was thinking about adding rman as a required > dependency for NAS, rather than wraping it with 'if you've installed > xorg 7', and then adding a note at the top of rman page that says it's > already installed if you've installed Xorg6 or XFree86.
I can barely understand what you're trying to say here, but if it means that you only need to install the rman package if you have Xorg7 installed, then you somehow need to explain this in clear terms. DJ, please take whatever time is necessary to determine a good way to phrase this. I wish I could help, but your description of what is required is so vague that I cannot offer any help until I understand what is required. > What do you's think? This also warrants revisiting my original opinion > about libdrm, mesa, rman, and xterm being in other parts of the book. I > think I might have been a little to quick to judge on those. I feel all these packages scattered all throughout the book is wrong. But you have already commented to my suggestions that they are wrong that you feel confident they are where they should be. We are in total disagreement here. But that's cool, disagreement isn't bad, it just means there perhaps should have been some discussion before the move was made. I'm getting mixed messages, here, though. I'm not sure if you're now doubting your original decisions, or if you're good with your decisions, but they don't seem to fit. > Moving these packages to the xorg7 section takes about ten seconds to > do, so it's very little work. Then put them where they belong. :-) > I still say that the packages are already > in the correct sections by expected use, Nobody else has commented, but I feel they are in the wrong place, and now you are leaning towards this. What else do you need? > but the expected environment of > an installed X Window System includes them, and will generally make it > easier for editors that might have to deal with them in the book. I > also think being linear, as Bruce had mentioned previously, will be > easier for users. I'm undecided, so let me know what's best. Put X-Windows packages in their own section. Can anyone really use XTerm as a general utility? No. It is confusing to someone who runs across XTerm in the general utilities section. It makes no sense, and serves no real purpose. Sorry for being so candid, but I believe that is what you were asking for. I just hope others contribute as well. If I'm wrong and the entire community disagrees with me, then great. At least we have a consensus. Right now, it seems only you and I have contributed to the threads and we are in total disagreement. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 20:22:00 up 4 days, 12:22, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
