Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:50 PM Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
Did you see the Preface?
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/prologue/package-choices.html
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.
Some time ago we decided to make the sysv and systemd books as compatible
as possible, Originally we needed to add 8 packages for systemd. We left
out dbus and systemd from the sysv version of the book, but left the others.
As you know, LFS is not about building a minimal system. There are some
packages that could be left out of sysv (e.g. acl) or exchanged for light
weight packages (e.g. vim). What we have is a compromise that allows a
user to customize a system via BLFS.
-- Bruce
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