On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:20:31 -0500 Chuck Rhode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote this on Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:04:03PM > +0000. My reply is below. > > > One can hardly blame the new LFS'er for wanting to carry on in his > > nice new system. > > I'm not familiar with the ancient history of BLFS, but it seems to me > there might be room for three products: BLFS-Part-One-Gnome or > BLFS-Part-One-KDE to come between LFS and BLFS-Part-Everything-Else. > I know I was (am) baffled by the absence of judgment calls made by > BLFS, and I would be more comfortable, being nudged (as with LFS) in > the direction of what is essential. Well, I AM familiar with the ancient history of LFS, from version 2 anyway - way before BLFS was started in fact. I would also want: BLFS-Part-one-without-all-that-eye-candy-cpu-and-memory-hogging-rubbish. BLFS-Part-one-with-xorg-but-let-me-decide-on-windows-managers-thanks. BLFS-Part-one-for-a-server-without-x-screwing-with-it. etc.,etc.. Actually all YOU need is a list of the packages from BLFS to install first for YOUR chosen system, and a sequence. If you want someone else's choice, use Ubuntu, (or Gentoo if you like watching the pretty gcc messages.) There was an impassioned debate about whether to have a BLFS at all! Many people thought that it spoilt the fun to tell people HOW to build their applications layers on top of the LFS base. Frankly, if you can't decide what applications layers you need, you shouldn't mess with LFS as the basis for a production system - but by all means use it to learn Linux, (then throw it away, and use Ubuntu). I think, having read the whole thread that there MIGHT be room for a small number of 'use BLFS this way' guides: Gnome and KDE perhaps, but they would be guides to BLFS, not new books, or repartitioning of the existing master-work. You can include a chapter 'how to build from BLFS in the chrooted system'. I suggest that one of you writes one - then we will have something to criticise (positively, of course). R. LFS#207 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
