Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 09/13/05 14:05 CST: >>Looking over the rules very briefly, I noticed that the comm devices >>are not going to be defined. Did I interpret that correctly? >> >>If so, I think it is a mistake. One couldn't even use his serial mouse. > > Can you use your mouse on a vanilla LFS box? I thought it required at > least gpm?
Typically, yes of course. But for the BLFS devs to painstakingly go through the book and try and figure out which ones of the almost 400 packages are going to need updates to add an entry to a rules file, and instructions to restart udev is simply such a royal pain in the ass. It would almost seem that to avoid that huge headache, BLFS will simply migrate all the rules you pull out and stick them into a BLFS rules file and have new BLFS users install this rules file and restart UDEV. Problem is getting folks to see the instructions to add the rules file and getting them to restart udev. I just don't see what is gained for LFS by doing this. Looking at the big picture of LFS/BLFS as a whole, I don't see it as a "good thing". -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 14:09:01 up 164 days, 13:42, 3 users, load average: 1.37, 1.15, 0.66 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
