On 1 September 2018 at 22:09, DJ Lucas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Eagle Eyes! As technical editors, we tend to focus on the content. While not > necessarily a skill that we lack, "nitpicking" (a term whose negative > connotation annoys me to me no end) requires shifting gears and focusing > specifically on the text rather than the technical content. It's what a > professional editor would do before the book goes to print. I think it's just > not something that technical editors find easy to do, and so, is frequently > overlooked. I know I don't find it easy. Please keep them coming if you are > so inclined. > > --DJ
There's a reason I've tended to pay attention to the Dependencies section, and that's that I didn't like the fact that the ordering across the SysV and SysD books started to make it appear as though you had to make a choice between init systems a lot earlier in the package install order than I believe is neccesary. (See postings passim) Similarly, theres seems to be a creeping melding of SysD-required packages over into the SysV book and so I keep checking the Dependencies section so as to see if I really do need Python/Meson/Ninja/etc so as to build an LFS system. (Answer still appears to be "NO", by the way ?!). I hope neither of those views are thought to be criticism though - more a natutal consequence of someone espousing the "your system: your rules" mantra. FWIW, my reporting of the missing Libelf stanza only came about after I'd made sure that there wasn't an "Elfutils" stanza, given that the Libelf capability comes from a partial install of the contents of the Elfutils package's tarball. Again, from a personal viewpoint, I'd prefer for it to be referred to by the package (tarball ?) name, but there you go: it takes all sorts I guess. Kevin PS Hoping that my 8.3 build, once commneced, will allow me to refresh the UEFI hint which, when I very recently re-read it, not only seemed a little old, in terms of the packages, but also seemed to be in need of a bit of a proof-read too! -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
