I'm about to step back from editing BLFS for a while.  This year,
I've spent far too much time on it, and the other things that I put
aside must now take priority.  At the moment, I'm preparing one of
my irregular lists of what I've built, and in what order.  After
that, I don't see myself doing much, if anything, here for the rest
of this year.

 One of the things I now need to do, while things on the development
side are quiet, is a heavy overhaul of my buildscripts (move to
DESTDIR installs before the real install, to get an accurate list of
everything that gets installed).

 I still have _some_ interest in the following package updates, but
I'm in no hurry to spend time on them, at least until I get tired of
banging my head agaisnt the screen during my DESTDIR changes:

1. audacious-3.3.1 - works mostly ok, time indications seem b0rken,
but that isn't unusual, nor critical.

2. firefox/xulrunner-15.0.1 : I had hoped to take a look at this,
but I've got problems with 15.0 on my old, slow, LFS-6.6 system
(installed ok, but crashes on almost every page - much of that
system is now obsolete, but 14.0.1 in the non-xulrunner form worked
fine there), and no time to spend on measuring, nor on confirming
that the xulrunner build is again bigger and slower.

3. apache-2.4.3 - works fine for me, but I only serve myself static
pages from the LFS and BLFS books :)

4.  I'm also leaving gutenprint-5.2.9 out - as I put in the ticket,
5.2.8 works fine on my Epson, but might be broken on newly added
canon printers - that's why 5.2.9 came out so soon.  If I get my
updated buildscripts to a usable state, I will be trying 5.2.9 - but
that is probably a couple of months away [ I'll want to build
everything after LFS by-hand, one package at a time, to confirm that
it will adapt to one of the DESTDIR variants, or to do a pre-build to
a user-writable directory if it won't, and also improve some other
parts of my scripts.

 So, I'll still be reading the lists, but perhaps not every day.

ĸen
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