On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:03, Michael Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody! > > > I was wondering: one of the things that gives me a headache when installing > LFS, is that there is no generic package management system that you can use > to install the basic system software (Chapter 6). I know, that the point of > lfs is to built everything from scratch, but that not necessarily conflicts > with dpkg, the only thing you would have to explain, is how a deb package is > built from scratch eg. a hint would do the trick, then you could use dpkg to > install all the packages in chapter 6. I know that dpkg is very light > weight, and it should be no problem to include it at the beginning of > chapter 6 (If you install the package without dselect). Just curious to get > feedback, as of why this isn't a good idea. >
That's like asking why we shouldn't add rpm or portage or any other PM... Probably because we don't want LFS to be oriented to any package management system or such. We'll give ideas, but the user should be left to decide and research on his/her own. And besides, LFS is supposed to help the user compile software on their own and learn the inner workings of a Linux system without any PM or heavy dependency "crap". (a small version of DSL? lol) -- later, Robert Xu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
