Ken Moffat wrote: > Interesting. I had been going to suggest (if I didn't already), > half in jest, that libproxy could be dropped from the book since it > is no longer required by the gnome packages and now uses that > unpleasant replacement for configure. Do you use it ?
I'll check if it is a used by anything else and if not, drop it from the book. Not in jest. >>> 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. > > Why do we still have xinetd in the book ? Good question. I think I'll look at dropping that too. > No interest - I gave up on kde4 years ago, too many straws broke > this camel's back (figuratively speaking - it was a car that did it > in the literal sense) I really don't have a lot of interest in KDE4 either but I may do it for the sake of the 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) >>> > > We've aregued around this in the past. I agree with your comment > in parenthesis, but we have people who think some of the files in > /etc/ should be in /var/lib. Wayne prepared GNOME_SYSCONFDIR for > gnome-3, changing the book to /etc is not a priority for me (for the > gnome packages). /etc is definitely overused. For instance bash_completion.d should be in /lib, if not /usr/lib. > ĸen, wishing he hadn't volunteered to be the gnome-3 monkey ;) I'm not a Gnome user, but I really appreciate what you are doing for the book. I do understand exactly where you are coming from because there are a lot of packages I've done that I don't use. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
