Randy McMurchy wrote: > I suppose what gets me is the push for alphabetical, yet important > things (to me) such as the Perl test suite having a hiccup > (t/op/magic................................Dying on warning: > Can't exec "ps": No such file or directory at op/magic.t line 306.) > because the procps package hasn't been built yet goes without > concern.
Yes, I was looking at that. I was thinking we might even be able to push procps to just before perl in the alphabetical branch. Of course, then that would mean that we would have to review the build again. [snip] > Another example is not wanting to put Vim earlier in the build > because it doesn't fit the alphabetical mold. To me that is > wrong. I build Vim in Chapter 5 just so I have it to examine build > logs in Chapter 6. I find Vim much easier to use than 'more' or > 'less' to examine and peruse logs. I realize this is probably more > personal taste than anything else, but still not building an > editor earlier because it isn't in alphabetical order is again, > to me, counter-productive. It is easier to use, but so is wget and lynx and so on and so on. My point wasn't that it wasn't alphabetical but that there was no technical need for it earlier. The whole purpose of this idea is to build dependencies first and organize the rest of the build. Vim is a luxury. :) If you want it earlier, by all means build it, but I don't think it's necessary. Also, I'm curious why you need to use vim in your LFS environment and why you don't use the host's vim in another terminal. > Anyway, please know I'm not trying to discredit the idea or the > work you guys have done so far, I'm only expressing opinion for > the sake of discussion. Yep. Understood. Please view my replies in the same light. :) -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
