Paul Rogers wrote:
This was posted twice two minutes apart.
Yes, sorry 'bout that. The first was hand addressed to
linuxfromscratch.org but I hadn't waited for the "Welcome" that
suggested lists.linuxfromscratch.org and I wasn't sure where the
first went.
less and vim could be done as a part of chapter 5, just changing --
prefix to /tools, but they are certainly not needed. A user only
needs to go to another shell instance on the host and use the host's
versions via /mnt/lfs/<filename>.
Certainly, that's what I do. But is there some good reason for delaying
them in Ch6 after one has a good compiler & library? If we're going to
make them anyway, and there are no dependencies, it would AID the
builder to have them made earlier.
At one time, maybe 10 years ago, there was an effort to put the packages
in alphabetical order, but take into account dependencies. That is why
vim is last and less is sort-of in the middle.
Given that it is so easy to access files from outside chroot with host
tools, I really don't want to change that. If there was a significant
problem, I think we would have heard about it before now.
-- Bruce
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