Olaf Grüttner wrote: > I like LFS and BLFS. I have built both several times in the past. > I will give more time and once the gnome-3 instructions are ok to most > people on the list I will do it again. > > I liked the idea of a build order because in the past I had the > following problem several times: > > An early package has optional depencencies which did not seem important > at that time. So I did not install it. > Some 50-60 packages later something is not compiling. Finally after lots > of investiation the optional package once omitted is at fault. > => all packages in between are not compiled with a package which turned > out to be more important than expected.
If something like this happens, we would like to know about it. Then we can make the dependency recommended. > How do projects like fedora / suse /debian tackle this problem ? They probably build all, or at least most, dependencies. They actually pay people to do that analysis. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
