Peter B. Steiger wrote: > 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> > I didn't mean there's no need of the DRI hint in lfs book. I meant that often LFS users are experienced users that added to xorg.conf those lines a lot of times, so they didn't notice the missing of that hint, just because they didn't need that. This is what I meant, I just tried to give a reason. I agree with putting this hint in the book, just as you do guys.
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