Hi all, (I'm a long time user and advocate of the LFS project) and here are my observations after read Randy's and the other replies so far...
On 04/07/11 00:42, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > What do we do with the behemoth that is BLFS? Get back to basics. What is the point of LFS/BLFS? It is and always has been an educational tool/project. I'd suggest that BLFS should be cut-down in terms of the applications it covers and to concentrate on providing the educational experience, e.g. showing how to work out dependencies, how to roll-back if you decide the app you've built isn't what you wanted etc etc... Rather than trying to be a kind of 'all distros to all men' which is what I think it has become now... To augment a smaller BLFS I'd provide a mechanism for user-contributed (and maintained) "pages" of extra packages so that anyone can write-up a how to build ZXY application. A wiki type approach would seem appropriate here with some kind of template to provide a level of consistency. > Is it maintainable? From you own comments Randy it seems as though in its current form it isn't. There are simply too many apps and not enough people. Cheers Al -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
