On Oct 18, 2011, at 7:43 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> scrat wrote:
>>
>> What help are you looking for?
>
> The first step is to get general agreement on how to organize the book.
> A simple table of contents for what packages should be in a non-gui
> Volume I would be a good start.
>
> Then a list of what the current packages should be. I created a page in
> the BLFS Wiki for suggestions:
>
> http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/BlfsReorg
I'm hoping that this new cut of BLFS, (in particular, the splitting of it into
several volumes), has the goal of making discrete, "stable" releases, that have
some correspondence with LFS.
Since it seems like splitting the book is inevitable, I think we ought consider
a different criteria for splitting the book. There's been too much focus on
what-to-call-the-thing, and I think if you want numbered volumes, that fine.
But, I don't think X-Windows is necessarily the line. It was an example of a
large clump of packages which I pointed to, and now regret, since people seemed
to have latched strongly onto it.
I think the first pass in determining what should be in this first volume
should be isolating the min-cut clique (thinking dependency graph, not social)
which has the fewest number of external dependencies. If packages within a
volume are highly coupled, so be it; that's the point of keeping them together.
Even if some packages are guilty of being involved in a long cycle in this
graph, a special exception can be made (or a volume created with these
badly-behaving packages).
As an organizing principle, Volume I needs to be the most independent ring,
with some kind of stated goal: (e.g., it's the goal that packages in this
innermost ring only depend on the kernel, glibc, and <blah blah blah>).
> For those who want to edit the page, register and let me know that you
> want to contribute. I'll give write privs.
>
> The next step would be to determine the most recent versions for those
> packages that we determine should be included.
I've just started this list myself, in anticipation, so I'll sign up and
contribute my version.
Q
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