On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 05:39:29PM -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > Apologies, I fumbled this reply a moment ago. It wasn't ready and > should be removed. > > > We've never been completely minimalist. > > Neither am I! But my mantra is KISS; above impatience. I really don't > care about boot times. That's never more than a miniscule fraction of > my total wait time. > > Sytemd definitely violates my idea of KISS! I'm sticking with SysV. > > Nobody uses my boxes but me. I've never seen any point to extended > attributes, nor ACLs. Just more complications for what gain? Why does > LFS base need them--the book doesn't explain, > > > If we were, we'd remove vim, among others. > > Yeah, I've only used it a few times, under extreme duress. But there > needs to be *some* editor in the LFS base, and vim is expected. > If you use ed (I remember that Bill used to use that), then I salute you. But for any other value of $EDITOR[¹] I will have to accuse you of heresy on three counts : heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, and heresy by action -- *four* counts. [2]
Whatever, Your System, Your Rules - but as Bruce noted, things in BLFS might need the things you were really complaining about. And yes, I still think they are a waste of space on most of my LFS systems (ISTR something in kde needed them), but it is more important to try to keep our variations together - we are severely under-staffed. For most people, the space and extra build time used by these packages is immaterial. Oh, and Happy Xmas. ĸen [1] On a freebsd list recently, somebody mentioned using the SYSIN DD statement in IBM JCL as a minimal editor, but that isn't really something to do in a 'nix system. [2] Waddya mean, you didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition or Python ? -- This email was written using 100% recycled letters. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
