On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 20:33 +0200, Stefano Lampis wrote: (after Dan sez) > > I was really surprised to see it wasn't in the book. I'm gonna put > on > > my editor's hat for a few hours tonight, so if I beat you to it...
> Probably the reason is that lfs users should be experienced users, > without the need of someone that configures dri for them. As prone as I am to being equally condescending most days, I'm gonna have to disagree with you there. Do you suppose we should also dispense with the examples of how to run ./configure && make && make install, because everybody should already know that before they touch lfs? <rant> The first time I built lfs a hundred years ago, I didn't know C++ from FORTRAN and had only been using Linux (from a Red Hat CD) for six months. I didn't know about configure, makefiles, directory conventions, or how to partition my drive. That's the beauty of lfs - a total clueless idiot like me was able to build a solid Linux system complete with Samba file shares for my wife and kids to access from their Winduhs systems, a sturdy firewall, and replacements for all my Winduhs applications... over the course of a few weekends with no additional help or information beyond what was in the lfs book. You don't need to know anything! The book explains in sufficient detail for the experts and sufficient simplicity for the novices where to get the source files, how to load them into your source tree, how to configure, build and install them, and any post-installation tweaking that is needed to make the system perfectly usable. The lfs documentation, particularly with regards to cradle-to-grave X Windows builds, is more thorough and comprehensible then a hundred wiki pages scattered from one end of cyberspace to the other. After five complete lfs/blfs builds on various systems over as many years, this information on making sure non-root users are able to run the DRI module is the one thing I have ever found lacking. </rant> -- Peter B. Steiger Cheyenne, WY -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
