On 10/17/2011 11:42 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > But, your core already appears to contain things that I have no > interest in, nor need for. The strength of BLFS has always been > that you can pick the things you want. The idea of a 'core' implies > it should always be built.
And this is the crux of the problem. The goal, if there ever was _one_, has been overshadowed by the complexity of committing a single change. This is a deterrent that should not exist in a development book. I personally have no problem with the BLFS-Core, BLFS-LAMP, BLFS-LAPP, BLFS-KDE, BLFS-LXDE, BLFS-Gnome BLFS-Whatever books, except that it'd be a lot of duplication of effort. For instance, the BLFS-Gnome book would contain pretty much all of the book except the server and the majority of the KDE packages (and add about 70 others in order to be feature complete). I too think the organization should be better thought out, but my preferred method of attacking that problem would be equally unacceptable for the very same reasons. I'll go ahead and suggest it anyway though, let us start with only the stylesheets and the introductory chapter, then add or migrate whatever it is that you feel compelled to add. This would at very least weed out the cruft that nobody cares to maintain, but I no longer have the time or inclination to maintain and/or contribute in order to get the book to a 'stable' state, which puts us right back full circle. Of course, there is nothing stopping any individual from doing the same. The xml files are there, mostly written even, just organize them in whatever way you prefer. This gives the opportunity for anybody who cares to do so, to write a completely linear book, free of dependency lists if they so choose. > BTW - please don't treat this as an attempt to deter you from editing BLFS, > I've spent enough time on that unpleasant task, suffer it if you wiah ;-) That's a little too positive there Ken, don't you think? :-) -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
