Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > On 04/08/13 09:07, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> We have reached a milestone. The SVN versions of both LFS and BLFS are >> now up to date. There are no major outstanding issues that need to be >> fixed. >> >> There are a couple of minor changes that I have to LFS, but those will >> be committed soon, but are not critical. KDE is slightly out of date, >> but a new version is due anyway in the next two weeks. >> >> Of course, upstream will continue to release additional updates and we >> need to stay on top of that, but keeping up is a lot less problem than >> getting caught up from being behind on literally hundreds of packages. >> >> With that in mind, I would like to freeze LFS (mostly) on August 15 and >> release LFS-7.4-rc1. The target date for LFS-7.4 will be 1 September. >> During the freeze period, some packages may be updated, but not gcc, >> binutils, or glibc. Any update in the freeze period will be considered >> by the impact to the rest of the books - both LFS and BLFS. >> >> In that two week period, beyond normal fixes, I propose to start >> rebuilding BLFS and marking packages for lfs74. Shortly after the LFS >> release, I'd like to produce a 'stable' BLFS-7.4 with all packages in >> BLFS tested against the new LFS. Then sometime in September we can >> release BLFS-7.4. >> >> Comments? >> >> -- Bruce >> > > I'm curious about what are the plans for GNOME in a stable BLFS. > Is it going to be completely removed since it incomplete? or will there > be some kind of note stating that it is incomplete?
GNOME 2 is obsolete and unsupported with newer suport libraries like glib. GNOME 3 appears to depend on systemd, so if there is enough interest in supporting the systemd branh, then gnome will be suppored there. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
