On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 01:44:33PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> On 11/4/2011 1:14 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > Besides, building LFS/BLFS *is* programming.  You still go through an
> > edit, build, check process.  The output of a programming process is not
> > always executable code.
> 
> Not at all trying to argue, but for the sake of discussion I think it is
> a stretch to say that writing a book (with insertion of XML markup) is
> programming.
> 
> <para>Lots of nice text describing anything, could even be fictional
> material as well.</para>
> 
> The above (in my opinion) hardly qualifies as "programming". However, it
> matters not where each package is located, as long as it is in the TOC,
> it is easy to find. :-)
> 
 Totally agree.  Also pkg-config, like cmake, is a tool used in
building.  Mind you, things like nasm, gcc-3 (almost certainly now
obsolete), perl modules, python modules, and (arguably) Python
itself are mainly in the book because they are build dependencies.

longindex.html good, index.html prone to causing disagreement :-)

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