On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 17:19 +1200, Gordon Findlay wrote: > In my perception the book currently assumes that the audience is > people with some (considerable) understanding of the command-line, and > OS concepts in general (for example the fact that 'source directory' > might have different meanings depending on context).
Very much so. Like myself when I started on LFS years ago - I felt I'd learned everything I could from using a distro, and wanted to know how things worked behind the scenes. Others will have different motivations, but the assumption is certainly that a) people are aiming to learn something, and b) they're already experienced Linux users who know how to compile packages from sources. > And the purpose of the book (again, my perception) is educational, so > the explanations about the tool-chain modifications and how > cross-compilation works are not extras, but an integral part of the > book. The aim is to learn, not just to get to the end. Absolutely. As far as I'm concerned, the primary purpose of LFS is to educate readers about such things - learning about tool-chains and all the other components of a Linux system by building one from parts. That you actually have a working system at the end is secondary. Encouraging users to skip those parts is entirely counterproductive, to my way of thinking. Simon.
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