Chey here, I'm willing to help Doug as he needs it until we get this next release out. Him and I rebuilt my machine today that I was going to originally use before we left, so I'm going to be building that machine out over the next several days. I'm willing to do whatever is necessary to help get one more release out with things as they are right now.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:15 PM Paul Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > currently in there, for one more release at minimum. Consistency is > the > > > thing that is the most important to me, and one more release would > also > > > give people who use LFS in production the time to adapt their systems > > > for the new changes. > > I do understand the problem, but I forsee one pretty big hassle > forthcoming. The one thing to say about the existing book is: one is quite > certain all the packages are consistent with each other. Split in two, or > even more (networking & GUI stuff suggests themselves), the idea presents > itself: different release readiness for different sections, and separate > development tracks probably lead to package version inconsistencies. If > one decides to enforce keeping them in-step, what really have you gained? > > This is somewhat the situation I found when I came aboard with 4.1: BLFS > was still 1.0! It jumped from 1.0 to 5.x. > > Perversely, perhaps one should explode the book altogether! Have each > package separate, on its own development track, then have wget and make > files. Shift entirely to the sort of thing in the SVN versions. Granted, > everybody would likely have a unique system build, making support very > troublesone. > > -- > Paul Rogers > [email protected] > Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." > (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
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