Greg Schafer wrote: > Here it is folks, living proof CLFS are competing directly against their > parent project. I'm utterly gobsmacked.. > Damn Greg, did they piss in your Cheerios or what? Just as you did, the CLFS group did not like the goals, nor the direction that LFS was taking and they went and did their own thing that met their goals, as Ryan had mentioned previously, continuing where the lfs-hackers list left off. Whether it is a fork is really irrelevant at this point, but for the record, CLFS *is* a fork. That said, is a fork really so bad? It might have been more disheartening if they had copied the book and called it "J&R's BYOL" or something to that effect (sorry if I've missed anyone who was part of the original CLFS core team at the time of the split), but they didn't. They attempted to keep it under the LFS name and at least pay tribute to its roots.
CLFS and LFS have had our differences in the past, and will probably continue to at times, but the various LFS camps should try to work together as much as possible for the common goal. I'm not sure where that puts DIY, but I'd like to include you as well, though you probably benefit the least since you typically forge ahead on your own. On that note, your input has been very valuable, and I'd like to again say thank you for all your help in getting 6.3 out the door. Though you do pretty damn well with your group, it is due mostly to your own dedication to DIY. LFS and CLFS are short on people who want and/or have the time to do the work. I'd like to be able to forge a working relationship between all like groups so that we can continue to feed from each other, no matter how little or great that benefit that may prove to be. Directed comments like the one above do a lot more damage than the idea of CLFS 'competing' with LFS. Take SM or Gentoo as an example. They are direct competitors, if there is such a thing in Open Source. I've recently had the pleasure of working with one of the SM devs through the Mozilla products, and he even sub'd to BLFS-dev to post his comments in the ongoing thread. In the past, we've had the assistance of Debian maintainers, Gentoo devs, and even the Redhat guys and gals. All have been great to work with...it is just the nature of open source. Please try to keep this in mind in the future. > PS. Merry Christmas. > Back at you! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas, and enjoy your New Year's celebration. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
