Randy McMurchy wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote these words on 03/08/08 09:06 CST: >> Hi all, I wanted to see if there were any objections to commenting out >> the JDK source build for now. > > If you think the existing source build is too old, then it looks like > you don't have any choice (remember that we are targeting a rather > old LFS/BLFS system). Myself I'd like to see it stay, but we'll let > the community decide. > > The downside is that you'll have to comment the whole page out. I > don't want it to look like we support binary packages in a stable > BLFS release. I'm not really sure we can be flexible here either. > In fact, just the few seconds I'm thinking about it makes me sort > of lean really heavy of establishing policy of no binary packages > in the book unless it's used to bootstrap a source build. > > Sort of a catch-22, because there are quite a few BLFS packages that > rely on Java so we really need it in the book, but you say it must > go.....
I would like to add an alternative view. Although having a binary package in the book is not preferable, I think this can be an exception. The text could describe the circumstances why we are making that exception. It could also say that the source installation procedures are expected to be in the next version of the book when OpenJDK is released. The reason I would like to see the binary instructions in the book is that they are not trivial. We do mention Nvidia drivers in the X section, but those have a pretty easy install methodology, so I don't see adding those to the book. The only other binary I use is vmware, but that is well beyond the scope of BLFS. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
