On 27/07/10 17:56, Yaacov-Yoseph Weiss wrote: > Thanks Bruce, > >>>> From a previous discussion here, I got the impression the people >>>> use their own scripts to automate lfs. >> >> That's part of the learning process. > > A fair point, but it sets a pretty high standard for even building a second > time, and likely loses many potential developers who built once and left. > I think that's a difference of perspective. Automated building and a package manager are important if you think LFS is a distro, however, many of us think of LFS as an education tool that forces the user to think hard about system building
>>> Gah, it probably takes a long time to find all the updates... It'd be >>> nice if we had software that could find updates and alert blfs-dev. >> >> Even such a script appeared, we would need a lot more volunteers to make >> changes than we have now. > > It would be enough for me to know that the build instructions in BLFS are > up to date. That is just that the build instructions work on new LFS, even > if the BLFS package is old. BLFS is poisoned by the toxic personality of Randy Mcmurchy. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
