Hi Guys, I just wanted to report on the status of the alphabetical branch as it currently stands. For all intents and purposes, I believe it produces a stable environment. I have built many, many packages on top of it and it's working wonderfully. I have built my usual base BLFS packages, ie, wget, subversion, Xorg, libxml2, libxslt, firefox, thunderbird. I've also built e17 and all of GNOME (I built most of GNOME's optional dependencies, too, including OpenLDAP). Not one complaint from any package. I was considering starting on KDE now as well.
I know some have expressed concerns about changing the package order and they have suggested doing binary comparisons. I have yet to find out exactly *how* to do that, so I'd be happy if someone could hit me with a cluebat. Also, Gerard had previously mentioned moving vim up to earlier in the build (for the sake of convenience.) While I agree it would be convenient, that doesn't fall into the motivation for the package re-order, namely alphabetical except for necessary dependencies. We get by just fine through the course of the LFS build by using cat and sed. If manual editing is needed at any point, it's possible to switch terminals on your host and edit a file, or drop in Vim when you want. I don't agree that it should move to the top of the build for general LFS instructions. Any further thoughts or comments? How does the community feel about getting these changes into trunk? -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
