Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On Jul 28, 2010, at 1:07 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Section 6.3 discusses PM. It says why we don't have PM in the >> book. >> >> There are six hints on PM. > > These sorts of replies are discouraging. It says "we've dealt with > this, no point in discussing further". It's terse and official and > unwelcoming. > > Yes, we know what the book says. All of us discussing this topic are > well familiar with LFS, (including Yaakov, you can easily see that > from his comments). And we know this topic has been discussed before > - so saying bluntly that the book deals with it as if that should be > the end of the story doesn't address why this topic is being > discussed again now. Obviously some people disagree with 6.3 and its > reasons and they feel that despite what is said there may be some > advantage to adding something more about PM to the book. If the end > result of the discussion is once again that things are best left as > is, that's totally fine, but let the discussion happen. Be open to > the possibility that a previous decision is no longer applicable or > that perhaps now is the time to reconsider.
I'm not opposed to someone creating an alternative version of LFS with package management. If a volunteer needs the resources on the LFS site, I'll be glad to set them up. However, I don't want to work on such a project. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
