On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:25:45 -0600 Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote these words on 01/10/06 03:26 CST: > > On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:10:04 -0600 > > Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>The BDB dependencies have already been removed from SVN BLFS. > > > > pity. > > Well, actually, they have been commented out. It would be really > easy to > > grep -lr 'linkend="db"/>' * > > from the root of the XML tree and see every file that was touched. :-) > Perhaps I'm in a minority, but I would really quite like to see dependencies on non-toolchain lfs packages in the BLFS. I realise it's too much work, but it would be useful. On the other hand, dependencies are such a complicated issue for taxonomical reasons: required for build, required to run, recommended to be installed before build, ditto for running, adds functionality, provides an alternative to, etc.,etc.. We should perhaps not open this box. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
