This has been discussed earlier this month. See http://www.mail-archive.com/lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org/msg18604.html
Regards, Molly On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Alice Wonder <alicewon...@shastaherps.org>wrote: > On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 16:14 +0800, xinglp wrote: > > We should > > move http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/bc.html to > > lfs. > > I agree that almost any use-able Linux system will have bc, but I'm not > sure it belongs in LFS any more than, say, which or even Python (which > also are on most use-able Linux systems) > > If it benefits any of the tests then there is a reason, but while I > don't speak for the maintainers, I think the point is a minimalist bare > bones install that is able to build itself, and I don't think bc is > needed for that (I had no trouble building LFS 7.3 in LFS 7.3 without > it) > > It is required by OpenSSL (for the tests I believe) so odds are it won't > take very long for someone adding software to LFS to find it in blfs. > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
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