Bruce Dubbs wrote: <snip /> > > P.S. The system above also boots to the command prompt in about 15 > seconds, not that booting is required often. The uptime right now is > 245 days.
For servers I completely agreee - I am just finishing off one right now that is based on LFS6.3 + some BLFS + Asterisk. It is on the Desktop that it gets more awkward. For example, when "testing" or wanting to experiment with a different Softphone client, about 4 or 5 clicks in Synaptic and I can get installed various softphones with various dependencies. If I decide on the one I like, removing the others is equally easy and all the cruft that had to be installed with it gets removed too. With the help of Randy and Dan, IIRC, getting Asterisk installed was an interesting exercise that showed me the use of DESTDIR. This obviously helps and might be the way forward for me... It seems that there is little support for an idea of a managed/packaged LFS so it is probably not worth pursuing further at this stage. (That's totally cool BTW. This is one of the reasons why I believe OSS is becoming so "mainstream". The development process is kind of true Darwinian Evolution in software - crap ideas die out pretty quickly, good ones just keep getting better & better by incremental improvement). Me, off to try and come up with some better ideas ;-) Al -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
