Hi all! First, thanks to you and the team of LFS for your work and effort! I think that in terms of digital self-empowerment LFS/BLFS is the most important and most valuable Linux-distribution of all.
There is hardly anything to criticize. From my own experience however, I
think that two aspects could be improved in BLFS:
1. Like for LFS, there should be a file with the md5sums
Verification of the packages is important. But having to check each of
several hundreds of checksums individually is really a tedious exercise
without much educational value.
The idea is of course to download the packages one needs and then check
the md5sums with
md5sum -c md5sum_file
against those in the file.
2. In hindsight, I would have appreciated a clear path to a
desktop-environment
I know what the "Introduction" in the book says: "Unlike the Linux From
Scratch book, BLFS isn't designed to be followed in a linear manner."
But in BLFS it is IMO very easy to get lost and frustrated in choices
and especially *dependency-hell* ("Dammit! Not another one!!!"). IMO
this aspect is rather a test for one's resolve than an encouraging
learning experience.
So what I suggest, is a clearly identifiable common thread within the
book or a list with the install-sequence (!) of those essential packages
one needs to have as a basis for a desktop environment.
I think this would make it much easier for the newcomer to build a
complete system and get a motivating sense of achievement - in half the
time. And the gain in knowledge wouldn't be any less, IMO.
Hope this was the right list to post this to.
Thoughts?
Rainer Fiebig
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The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.
Richard Feynman
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The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.
Richard Feynman
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