> It doesn't need any of the extras (dictionaries, help, translations). "Need", perhaps not, but would you say they are generally useful? I see they're in the 7.7 book.
I get the impression the help extra's main purpose is to convert the help files into wiki format. I'm thinking that might be nice on a multi- user system, emphasis on "multi", but not something I'd especially want if that's ALL it did. > As of 6/23/2015 11:20PM EDT > > Last v4 series: 4.4.4.2 > Current: 5.0.0.1 > Current BLFS development: 4.4.3.2 There's no feature I know I want from the 4-series. I did check to see if the 3-series had some significant CVEs, the other main reason for using the "latest & greatest". 3-series will do, I think. >> raptor needs cURL? > Doesn't seem to requre it. But it uses it for retriving files > from www. I grepped libcurl and saw a line that said "if libcurl is available", so I have the same impression. I had to check RDF on Wikipedia because neither redland nor its upstream libraries told me anything about what it's FOR. I think I'll try leaving it out--the more things using the internet the larger my "attack surface". (One of my gripes with KDE is: a file manager should not be a browser!) > According to the page, cURL can be used for more than just retrieving > files from the www. It can do file access from most protocols or > prefixes. Raptor may need cURL for this purpose. I have never looked > at the source code, so I cannot be 100% sure, but it I think that is > probably what Raptor uses it for. I'm not sure why though. According to what I read about RDFs, they're a primitive sort of relational database of subject-property-value "triples" for managing information. Now, maybe one of the values is a URL reference, but still, I think it's probably more secure to let the higher-level browser or whatever deal with it if necessary. > cURL is pretty much the de facto standard when working with > unstructured data. I dunno. If none of you scream "STOP!", and it turns out I'm making a mistake, maybe I'll have to rebuild. It's happened before. ;-) Thanks guys. I think I have a plan (for now). -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
