Hello BLFS team. With GNOME 3.6 release candidate few days away, I decided to review stable GNOME packages in the book and update them to final versions available up to today so I can focus on the upcoming release.
With that, I'd like to say that I am going to upgrade GNOME in the book to the next version. If someone else wants to do the work, you welcome. But looking at 3.x releases, every release adds some new (useless for most users, especialy LFS/BLFS ones). Just take a look at Rygel, Boxes, Baobab and such ... Also, I hate that they decided to make developer tools part of the release (in apps category). I've personaly never used them, I just built them in order to add them in BLFS. With the next release I'd like to remove some of those packages, including all developer-related ones and previously mentioned ones, which will triger removal of virt stuff, gupnp, most of packagemm packages and Tracker. I could also remove some packages that have no real use, but they are in the book because some one said that we want full GNOME as defined by upstream. Those count libchamplain, libgxps, cantarell-fonts, seed and maybe few others. With minimisation of GNOME, I could focus more on other areas of BLFS. I am not interested in any tex stuff, server software or some console tools, but I can help anywhere else. With Andy gone, we are lacking staff to maintain such large amount of packages. With Bruce maintaining both LFS and BLFS, and most of us not having enough time because of holidays or work or such, we can profit with the BOOK minimisation. I guess we can do better with external references for mentioned GNOME packages (as is done in KDE section), plus I could add some kind of order for GNOME packages (this one is terrible). I would also like to use this thread to ask LFS devs if there are any plans for LFS freeze so I can build -dev platform and use it to build GNOME plus fix other packages that are possibly broken with glibc-2.16 upgrade. If anyone disagrees with something said here, please speak. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
