Joshua Murphy wrote:
Finally, from personal experience, I can say that most people who come to LFS don't do it to have a small, clean, fast, and stable system (which is part of what they get), but instead go through the book, doing the build, to understand how and why it works, something you can never truly learn from any "packaged" system. Between re-building my main system as often as I have time to manage and lurking on these lists, I've learned more about how nearly every part of the system works than I ever could have using something that was, well "simple".
Nice summary, Joshua. I believe I agree with you. Having a master list of possibilities or recommendations is good for reference, but I don't think we want to specify every little thing for our readers. Where's the education in that? Showing them how to create proper user and group ids and explaining the udev rules to the best of our ability is far more useful and in harmony with what LFS is about.
Give them the basics, show them how to extend, warn about possible pitfalls and provide an example. Doing this we're not leaving them with a half-baked system, as some have said already - we're teaching them how to complete the system themselves which is what LFS has always been about first and foremost.
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