Armin K. wrote:
> On 02/21/2014 06:01 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Armin K. wrote:
>>
>>> I'm only one person and keeping up with LFS which is at least 10 times
>>> smaller and making sure it's perfect is hard enough.
>>
>> That's an understatement.
>>
>>> BLFS requires
>>> modifications to more packages than the entire LFS has. Easiest approach
>>> would be for both instructions to co-exist, with some kinds of
>>> role="systemd" xml tags to indicate it's required for systemd and
>>> role=sysvinit to indicate it's required for sysv (mostly configuration
>>> parts). but I believe it has been said once that BLFS should not mix
>>> instructions for those two books, so I'm not going to try.
>>
>> I don't have a problem with using role to generate two versions of the
>> book from the same source.  It will take a lot of up front work though.

> No, it's not two versions of the book, but one version with "Do this if
> you are using sysvinit and do this if you are using systemd". I believe
> it was you who said that we shouldn't mix those when Ragnar suggested it
> back ... ugh long time ago anyways.

What I said, or at least intended to say, was that users shouldn't be 
constantly reminded that "if you have x, do y, otherwise z".  I don't 
have an objection to doing that in the source by developers and creating 
the xsl to generate a 'standard' blfs version and a 'systemd' blfs version.

   -- Bruce
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