Re: Book Reorganization

2005-04-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/13/05 00:33 CST: > I've built over a hundred packages in the last week. What I found was > that I was continually scanning the TOC for packages. The size of the > TOC and the non-alpha order made it difficult for me to quickly find the > package I wanted.

Re: Book Reorganization

2005-04-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/13/05 00:33 CST: > Please sit back and relax. Consider another view. I'll certainly > consider yours. What really is the impact? Sit back and relax. Okay.. I've sat back and relaxed now. The build order in the programming section should have Tcl, Tk, E

Re: Book Reorganization

2005-04-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Jeremy Utley wrote these words on 04/12/05 23:23 CST: Alphabetical serves no useful purpose, when it contradicts the proper build order. At least that's my opinion, anyway. We can go back to the other order, but I put those sections in alpha order because of a problem I was h

Re: Book Reorganization

2005-04-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Utley wrote these words on 04/12/05 23:23 CST: > [snip] > That's the order my ALFS profile for BLFS runs in..it's not 100% > perfect, and it doesn't include everything, but it'll at least maybe > help you guys get a start on things. Thanks for the input Jeremy, however, I'm not so much loo

Re: Book Reorganization

2005-04-12 Thread Jeremy Utley
Archaic wrote: >On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:34:27PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > >>In my opinion, the book should represent the proper build order >>more than an alphabetical order. >> >>Thoughts from others? >> >> > >Agreed completely. > > > I don't know if it will help you guys out, b

Re: Book Reorganization

2005-04-12 Thread Archaic
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:34:27PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > In my opinion, the book should represent the proper build order > more than an alphabetical order. > > Thoughts from others? Agreed completely. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hard

Re: Book Reorganization

2005-04-12 Thread Torsten Vollmann
Well, I pretty much hoped I had more time to prepare for this, but since Randy brought it up here we go. (gonna be a long one...) Randy McMurchy wrote: > > In my opinion, the book should represent the proper build order > more than an alphabetical order. > +1 !! I spend the last couple of we

Book Reorganization

2005-04-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, Noticed in the Book's reorganization is some of the packages listed now in alphabetical order, instead of the order in which they used to be listed. That is with the prerequisites listed before the others. Many folks just follow the book, sometimes without regard to the optional dependenc