On 28/02/2018 13:29, Rob wrote:
How come packages in BLFS are not listed in order of precedence, the way they are in LFS?
See for example http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/introduction/which.html
Rather, they are listed in alphabetical order in each section.
Not true. Some chapters (specially those about Desktop environments) recommend to build the packages in the order presented, so that packages are not in alphabetic order. Other chapter group packages by what they do, and there is no order of precedence implied by the fact they are together.
Wouldn't it make more sense to list packages in order as they are required by subsequent packages?
If you read the link above, you'll see it would be very hard, and would not suit every usage. We try to give accurate dependency information, so that any package can be built with the instructions provided if all its recommended dependencies (and the recommended dependencies of the dependencies, and so on) are built.
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