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The big problem is that a lot of the old problems have now been solved.
Agreed.
Even the actual book editing isn't as difficult as once it was. Good XML has taken all the struggle out of even that.
Agreed.
So I think the project needs a challenge. Trouble is I can't think what it is!
Yep, and that's why I can both understand Randy's and the community's concerns about the lack of activity, but then wonder what activity it is they'd like to see. Obviously, we've got the upcoming change in Linux headers, but that's unlikely to cause major headaches. The glibc-2.4 upgrade, similarly, doesn't sound like it'll take too much work or cause too much pain.
Whilst some of the i18n work looks pretty hackish (no offense meant toward Alexander's stirling efforts!), it generally works. Longer term, I'd like to see us return to using `man', a vanilla upstream version of `groff' and drop `man-db' and `db'. That, though, is entirely dependent on upstream implementing the features we need.
My personal challenge, as pointed out a couple of weeks ago, is to try and get as many of our outstanding patches applied upstream as possible, so our instructions can be simplified even further, though any assistance with this chore would be greatly appreciated!
Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
