On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Randy McMurchy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > It has been some time, though I have read every message to all the lists > for the last several months. I want to keep this short, but start a > conversation that could lead us to the direction (if there is any) we need > to go. > > What do we do with the behemoth that is BLFS? > > Is it maintainable? > > There are just so many dependencies in the grand scheme of things now, that > it is almost impossible to update one package without it affecting (or > requiring) another package. It is dependency hell, now. Or so it seems. > > Suggestions are welcome. Volunteers are required. LFS is skating by with > only two people contributing. BLFS needs much more support than that. > > Discussion? Or is the thought of a maintainable BLFS unachievable? > > For what it is worth I'm building a GNOME 3.x system now and have many > updates I could do, but is it worth it? > > -- > Randy
Not sure what I count for (LFS Editor that doesn't commit anything?), but still around... Testing the packages that I use... I admit, I usually avoid the KDE/Gnome related packages & dependencies. pidgin, I've been following, I could probably post the updates somewhere, and I was hoping to contribute blender (Yet to actually make a new page in blfs, so not sure when that'll happen). I tinker with the latest xorg releases, and follow upstream, sometimes dabble in firefox4/libreoffice (although DJ has a better grasp at that then I do). although not sure if adding new packages like blender are what you meant when you said volunteers... been hesitant to get involved since I keep getting busy. -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
