Richard Melville wrote: > Any idea why XFCE is no longer supported in BLFS?
Basically, it is my own decision. I made it because of the following reasons: 1) No editors except myself use XFCE. Nobody cared about updating the ancient 4.2.x version when 4.4.0 came out. So even if I put the new version into the book, the text will suffer from "bit rot". 2) It has a lot of external optional dependencies not in the book, such as PolicyKit and libnotify that do provide the functionality that developers would expect to be available. 3) I disagree with these developers, because of critical (for me) bugs that come with the code that uses them. Such bugs are known for a very long time (see, e.g., http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2891), but developers wait for a miracle (and a miracle from a wrong party - in this example, PolicyKit has nothing relevant to "default mount options" in its stated goals) and do nothing. 4) Newbies are likely to compile with all optional dependencies even if warned that they are harmful. I don't want to see the resulting bug reports on the blfs-support list. In short, the package is too buggy, requires workarounds, and cannot be maintained in a good shape in the book. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
