On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 02:48:13PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 04:06:54PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> The proposal: > >> > >> If the first 3 assertions are correct, then I suggest that we should > >> remove resizecons, and its manpage, from the build - with some seds > >> (not yet tested), and in explaining the seds use a short summary of > >> assertions 1-3, or even of 1-4. > >> > >> Comments ? > >> > > Silence is always very hard to interpret - this time, I've > > interpreted it as "don't care either way" - preview (kbd and > > changelog are the only changes) at > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tmp/lfs-book-noresizecons/ > > I can't really comment since I don't use any non-default kbd functions. > > -- Bruce Thanks, I hope I didn't offend you by describing that as "don't care either way" - I'm in the same position. AFAICS, nobody using a recent kernel will use resizecons, so we will be better off without it (remembering that LFS can be small).
Let's call my approach option 1. The alternatives are to: 2. remove the man page on everything except i?86 (for LFS itself, that means x86_64, but 'everything except' is a more accurate description for anyone trying to build LFS on other arches) - a slightly strange case statement for a sed to do this (using 'unless' would be the correct logical construct here, but let's keep it in /bin/sh), 3. install it on x86_64 and reinstate svgalib in BLFS for those on i?86 or x86_64 who are determined to use it, 4. note that the program is only installed on i?86 [ I suppose we could omit explaining why it is useless ] and that people on other arches can delete the man page if they want to. This fits with upstream's Suse-influenced change in git to install the program on x86_64, but it doesn't make it useful. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
