On 04/08/13 13:15, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > 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 KDE is slightly out of date, 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 GNOME 2 is obsolete and unsupported with newer suport libraries like 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 > > >
So is the GNOME chapter going to be removed from the main branch? Wayne. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
