Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/23/13 21:23 CST: > About the only reason why is to avoid questions like "Why isn't the > latest version of package X in the book?"
Because it came out while LFS-7.3 was in package-freeze mode. Oh wait, we don't do package-freeze! :-) > 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. Yeah, but we use 'makeinfo' to create .html and .txt documentation in many, many packages in BLFS. Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.23] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 21:23:01 up 80 days, 7:22, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.07 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
