> > 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. >
as it is 'your distro, your rules' i don't assume there is a big common set of packages for all of us. maybe you're right with basic networking. but what is basic? as i meanwhile use kvm/qemu on all new systems, even bridge-utils is basic networking for me. wireless i don't use - but most laptop-users consider wireless as a basic requirement. i can't live without midnight commander. so i build mc during stage 6 (instead of vi) and rebuild after smb/nfs and again after x11. which editor? vi or emacs? as i have mc on each machine i don't need either and am fine with mcedit for daily business on the customer servers. what about pam? i am used to have ldap, nfs, samba on the server (my own and almost all clients). so i need pam on each desktop. i have to add --with-pam on some packages, where as the 'nopampeople' have to add --without-pam on some others. (don't as ME why these switches are necessary. should be peanuts to have configure autodetect it). about ldap: if my customer already has a ms-server, i don't need it. otherwise i use openldap (i'll have a look at the new samba 4 and possibly will switch). (most configure scripts handle ldap fine, not as with pam) what about x. i don't need graphics acceleration. no llvm, just mesa with svga - no gallium. current systems are fast enough for word processing and surfing. kde or gnome. or even xfce or lxde? in a server i need none. i even can't start firefox locally. but i install firefox to be able to use it over an ssh tunnel. i just forgot to mention in the first paragraph: ssh is basic networking for me. tobias -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
