On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:50 PM Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Did you see the Preface?
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> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/prologue/package-choices.html
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Hmm, actually, it does seem like there could be some improvement there. For
example, the preface tells me what the Acl and Attr package do, but it
doesn't say anything about why they are now in the book. Is there something
that needs these features? Did the editors just feel this makes the system
more 'complete'? Some packages do have what is more like a rationale, but
others are a little vague.

Another example: expat is included because it's a dependency of the
XML::Parser Perl module. But the rationale for that module only says that
it's an interface to the expat library. I'm left with no clue as to why
either are needed.

Thanks,

JH
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