Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/23/13 20:13 CST: >> I still am not in favor of putting this in LFS-7.3. It's so much easier >> to omit the .info build completely and, of course, there is no sense at >> all in building it in Chapter 5. > > I really don't understand why texinfo-5.0 had to go into LFS-7.3 at all. > What benefit does it give? (none?) And it is bound to break several > BLFS packages. Seems a needless headache just to have an updated package > that really provides no additional benefits.
About the only reason why is to avoid questions like "Why isn't the latest version of package X in the book?" I look at it as similar to the issues we've had several times with new versions of packages like glibc or gcc which caused a lot more problems than generating .info files that are usually distributed in a package's tarball. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
