On 11.2.2012 15:53, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:00 +0100 > "Armin K."<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Now I tried again, but failed with same message from mail system. Here >> is original mail: >> Hello there. I have noticed lot of commits to blfs book lately. Good >> job team, just keep it going! I wish I could help. >> >> Yet, I am unable to change anything directly, but here are few notes >> that I've noticed when compiling some of packages. >> >> Please, don't attack me with "Why must that be so in the book" or >> something like that. I just put this here as a reference. >> >> I know what are you guys like. You like minimal stuff and so, but yet >> not everyone is like you and not everyone is skilled enough to find >> everything he needs for something. >> >> So, let's start from the beginning of the book: >> >> Linux PAM can use libtirpc if someone wants to enable NIS support. > I install PAM but I don't use NIS so I've never installed libtirpc. I > can check this out and update the PAM dependencies in a day or 2 > >> polkit does not require seperate user anymore as noted on >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/polkit.html >> >> If you look at NEWS file in polkit source dir, you can notice this one: >> >> Changes since PolicyKit 0.94: >> >> David Zeuthen (20): >> Remove POLKIT_USER from configuration summary >> >> Michael Biebl (8): >> Remove POLKIT_USER option >> >> NOTE: This is just stripped output. >> >> >> Old PolicyKit on >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/policykit.html is >> dead for some time and it has became polkit, it can be safely removed >> from the book. > I don't install > >> User notes on >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/mdadm.html point >> to http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xfs Is this correct? > I can fix that now. > >> The glib 2.30 compile will fail if dbus is not installed. (Though it's >> only on gdbus tests iirc) > Yes, dbus should be listed as an optional dependency to run the tests. > I'll fix that now. > >> colord can use libsane. You can list it as optional. >> >> >> ScrollKeeper from >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/scrollkeeper.html >> isn't used anymore. Rarian package provides compatibility for it. It >> can be removed. > I agree, can we remove scrollkeeper please? > >> Besides fcron, you could add cronie from >> https://fedorahosted.org/cronie/ which is in fact based on original >> vixie cron but with some enhancments. >> >> >> DBus GObject Bindings from >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/dbus-bindings.html#eggdbus >> aren't used nor developed anymore. They can be safely removed. > Good. > >> I note hal is still there, but yet many of software has been ported >> from hal to gio/gvfs/gudev. Only package that I know that may use it is >> gnome-vfs and yet hal is optional there. > I've never used HAL and would also like to see it removed from the book. > >> UPower can also use libimobiledevice. You can add it as optional with >> an external link to their site. >> >> >> gvfs 1.10 can also use libimobiledevice and libbluray libraries. You >> can add them as optional. >> >> >> If you install python3.2 from >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/python3.html >> first, you won't get /usr/bin/python, but /usr/bin/python3 ... Symlinks >> can be made for it to be default. >> >> >> Samba 3.6 will also fail to compile without libtirpc if using glibc >> 2.14 or 2.15 ... >> >> >> Avahi 0.6.28 (Why 0.28 when there is 0.6.30?) program avahi-autoipd >> also requires seperate user avahi-autoipd with home >> dir /var/lib/avahi-autoipd. >> >> >> In libproxy 0.4.7 WebKit 1.0 library is required, not 3.0, so it would >> be nice if mentioned. >> >> >> As for Samba and Linux PAM, xinetd will also fail to compile using >> glibc 2.14 or 2.15. Explicitly linking libtirpc with LDFLAGS=-ltirpc >> solved that problem for me. >> >> >> gtkmm has been updated to 3.x version, but same as for gtk 2.0 and gtk >> 3.0, there may be need for gtkmm 3.0 and gtkmm 2.0 libraries which >> don't conflict with each other. >> >> >> Same for libwnck. >> >> >> KDE4 section is a mess. Yet even required dependencies don't have links >> to the packages in book. >> >> >> Yet gnome pre installation configuration list >> GNOME_SYSCONFDIR=/etc/gnome/3.2.2 even tough many packages have files >> that should go into /etc (Yet every sane distribution and person list >> only sysconfdir as /etc for every gnome package) >> >> >> gstreamer bad plugins list kdebase dependency for kate, but yet there >> is standalone libkate on http://code.google.com/p/libkate/ that doesn't >> require bunch of qt3 stuff. >> >> >> libdvdread 0.9.7 can't be used with gstreamer ugly plugins. Newer >> version is required. > Download link for newer version? I can only find an svn download from > Mplayer > >> PulseAudio can also optionally use libasyncns and fftw >> >> >> CUPS can use Avahi's libdns-sd compatibility library for DNS-SD >> support. Note, there are also CUPS-AVAHI patches that link against >> avahi libraries. > Lots of interesting stuff there. Thanks for being persistent about > sending it. > > Andy
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