On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Philippe Delavalade <[email protected]> wrote: > Le samedi 27 mars à 10:27, Simon Geard a écrit : >> On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 23:20 -0400, Chris Staub wrote: >> > I don't need anyone to tell me how important it is to make sure the >> > book is clear - ensuring that the text is technically correct, and >> > more importantly understandable, is my primary goal. > > I'm a frenchman and english is not my natural language ; nethertheless I > always found that the book was very clear, even the first time I built > lfs. I was (and I'm always) a linux user but not a developper or sothing > like that ; as to me, difficulties come where configuring the kernel ! In > the first chapter, we are guided step by step. > >> >> Hey, calm down a moment, Chris. Nobody is disputing that. But while >> making things understandable might be your goal, people *are* still >> getting confused by things in the book. If they weren't, this list would >> be a ghost town... >> >> So when we see people making errors like this, it doesn't matter if you >> or I think the text is perfectly understandable. The evidence on the >> list shows at least people find it unclear, and to be blunt, their >> opinion in the matter is what's important. > > Yes but maybe people don't read carefully parts where general assumptions > are done. I guess that they only take care to command lines.
Sometimes the reader just doesn't understand even when they read it slowly or several times. > Maybe a suggestion for those who read to quikly : > five or six lines more in each chapter, something like > cd /$LFS/sources > tar -xvf package-version.tar.[gz|bz2] > cd package-version > ... > cd .. > rm -vfr package-version > and eventually > rm -vfr package-build > > It should perhaps prevent people not to follow 5.3 ? I wish they would add this. -- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. - Thomas Jefferson -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
