On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 07:56:55AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > I've used BLFS to build basic X11 support, and I've used it to build a > few servers. I cherry picked because building the whole thing is > ridiculous. > > Possibly it's time to split the thing into smaller chunks? The layers I > see are (roughly): > > 1) Infrastructure (chapters 3, 5-8, 10-12). > 2) Networking (chapters 4, 13-22) > 3) Multimedia (chapters 9, 23-25, 31-44) > > And then separate appendices on KDE and Gnome and XFCE and such. > With respect, I don't think it was *ever* intended that people should try to build the whole book, or indeed the whole of many of the chapters (obviously, people can use the whole chapter for Xorg, if they don't know what to omit, and I dare say the same is true for gnome and kde - almost inevitably, the gnome chapter will omit *something* that a builder might want, because gnome2 was such a big project - I've no idea how gnome3 compares, nor much interest in it).
But since I'm no longer willing to spend my time on editing BLFS (my ideas of security apparently differ from those of the other editors - look in this year's archives if you really care), I'll leave it there. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
