On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:29:10 -0600 Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Should we add pcre to LFS? Both less and grep can use it and the only > optional dependency is valgrind. > > There are 21 packages in BLFS that list it as a dependency. > > It's a small package (1.5 MB, 0.3 SBU). Hello Bruce, Along with PCRE, ACL and ATTR are useful at the get go as a few packages in a base build use them. Although, for a base system, should we only include required deps? I know acl and attr were left over from when LFS sysvinit and LFS Systemd book were trying to have one book. If we go with the reasoning of a lot of packages in BLFS list it as a dependency, we would end up adding Python, libxsml2, libxslt, an ssl library and who knows what else to the base build. I do know that after building LFS/BLFS a few times, a user will eventually know what they need and what order to do it. The great thing about LFS is we let the user figure out what they want in a base build and the devs keep the base build minimal. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
