On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 03:38:57PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > We've traditionally separated the various parts of gnome (and > anyway, many dependencies are not in the gnome sections of the > book). > > If you have a build order which is guaranteed to work, both for > people who build everything with all possible dependencies, and for > those who build much less, feel free to share it. > > ĸen
Perhaps I was a little too terse in that reply. Although we may have put packages in 'build order' in the distant past (when we had far fewer packages in the book), we've long-ago moved away from that. Among other reasons is that package dependencies change across versions - if the packages are in alphabetic order in the chapters or sections (yes, I know some are still random), it makes the book more manageable. OTOH, where there is a single recognised build order (e.g. kde, last time I hurt myself by trying to build it :) then I think we use that. If we don't move everything whenever dependencies change, it makes keeping the wiki pages in order a bit more feasible. Unfortunately, I have to persuade my fellow editors that wiki pages are worth creating for new packages ;) My own build order (using .xinitrc, not gdm and hence not PAM) for "enough of gnome to build the rest" on my non-accelerated-video machines is still somewhere at linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/ ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
