On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:34:17AM -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > > But all this isn't, I think, the point from the modern newbie's > perspective. Because modern distros strive to provide a complete > desktop environment competitive with common, errrm, commercial software, > they hide what the fundamental parts of a useful Linux system are. I > think, clearly, newbies don't know what additions from BLFS to the > extremely Spartan LFS makes a modestly functional, manageable, common > system which should be made first. I think if we stripped away all the > foliage from the systems we use, we'd find underneath a fairly common, > consistent set of packages--from which our individual interests caused > divergences, mostly by addition. I think what the newbie wants is a > page in BLFS that lists the packages, and order, that get them to that > next plateau of functionality.
For a server, I doubt there is very much commonality. For a desktop I suspect the common packages stop fairly soon after building Xorg. For myself, getting my preferred wm is basically followed by firefox with system libraries. Everything after that, including printing [ not everyone uses a printer, and not all printers use the same packages ], is very much down to individual choice. Normally, discussing changes to the book is done on -dev. In this case, since we are discussing guidance for new builders and everyone on -dev has probably long forgotten what it was like being new here, perhaps we could discuss it here ? If so, care to start the ball rolling in a new thread by providing a list of packages *with justifications* for people's comments ? Or perhaps the wiki could be used ? Bruce, your opinion please (if you are around). Alternatively, perhaps hint(s) suggesting how to approach the problem might be better ? The one good thing about a hint is that it is dated - dependencies change over time, what worked for me in September now doesn't work for all the current versions, or is suboptimal (the 'pysqlite got downloaded by firefox' discussion). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
