On 01/27/2016 08:29 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Should we add pcre to LFS? Both less and grep can use it and the only optional dependency is valgrind.
For what it's worth, and even though I include PCRE in my system, it seems to me that the split between LFS and BLFS is a good one. Having a simple core with as few moving parts as is practical, but then giving people the freedom/instructions to expand beyond that as needed, is a great design. And PCRE is complex enough that it features in a fair number of vulnerabilities (for a recent one see CVE-2016-1283).
Just two cents. Tim -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
