On 9 September 2017 at 16:48, Roger Koehler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > Richard Melville wrote: > >> > >> On the web page > >> > >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable-systemd/ > chapter01/whatsnew.html > >> there are further inconsistencies. The following packages: d-bus, > expat, > >> gperf, and tcl-core all have a hyphen between the package name and the > >> version, e.g. "Expat-2.2.3", as one would expect. None of the other > >> packages listed does, e.g. "File 5.31". It may appear to some to be an > >> unimportant issue, but it looks sloppy. > > > > Seems a little picky, but nevertheless I've updated my sandbox to add > dashes > > to all the packages. We will not update the stable book, but the dashes > > will appear in the -dev book starting with the next commit. > Thanks Bruce, I think that's a big improvement. > > Consistency is good. > > I like the dashes because when I build manually following the book, I > like to copy and paste the package name to use as the filename of my > log file. It would be nice to not have to add the dashes manually > (easier to work with than spaces in filenames). > As Roger says, "consistency is good", so, at the risk of appearing to increase your workload further Bruce, could I again return to the point that this web page: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/news.html has recently diverted from the long-running standard of, for example, "LFS 7.9 Stable Release to one of "LFS Stable Version 7.10 Release". The original standard reads so much better than the recently adopted change. Surely it is better to keep the version number adjacent to "LFS" than it is to shuffle it close to the end of the line. Here's another apparently random change. The Development LFS Systemd book: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/systemd/chapter06/dbus.html shows "D-Bus-1.10.22", whereas the latest BLFS book http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/dbus.html shows "dbus-1.10.22". Personally, I prefer the latter style of lower case as it's consistent with the package download URL of http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.10.22.tar.gz. However, my point is that there is no consistency. These may seem like very minor points, but surely, in computing consistency is very important. Richard
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