On 4/21/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In CLFS, we create all the users and groups, this will solve all issues > if LFS will follow. It will also simplify the BLFS instructions to > adding users to the appropriate groups. It's a plus for all, eliminates > so of tedious work the BLFS has to do managing users/groups and gives > everyone a full compliment of users/groups to start with.
I'm both late on this and generally just a lurker here, so feel free to ignore me based on both counts. For a possible third reason, this is opinion, and not technically based. I agree that a full set of users and groups needs presented to the reader somewhere (probably BLFS), but I also agree with Archaic in that it's much more educational for the reader to go through each step in creating the users and groups, and also that to be "fully functional" doesn't necessarily mean there's (for example) audio hardware, let alone a reason for devices and a group, and the same goes for the other similar examples. LFS is written in a style that will get you started towards most any end you're trying to get to, while BLFS is broken into sections to continue the path, whatever it will or won't include. As for the udev rules, I'm still slowly getting acquainted with them and have neither the expertise nor the time to effectively comment so far. Finally, from personal experience, I can say that most people who come to LFS don't do it to have a small, clean, fast, and stable system (which is part of what they get), but instead go through the book, doing the build, to understand how and why it works, something you can never truly learn from any "packaged" system. Between re-building my main system as often as I have time to manage and lurking on these lists, I've learned more about how nearly every part of the system works than I ever could have using something that was, well "simple". -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
