Re: UTF-8 Comments

2005-12-28 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: So (IMHO) the only valid reasons for choosing a UTF-8 based locale are: 1. RedHat compatibility at the cost of incompatibility with everyone else (including MS Windows): * Need to share files via NFS with systems that already use UTF-8 locales and can't be reconfi

Re: UTF-8 Comments

2005-12-28 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Alan Lord wrote: As a UK (English) based LFS user/builder I have, so far, had no problem using a standard LFS build. However, it has seemed to me that almost all new IT systems and Web Services platforms are using UTF-8 encoding. I am therefore planning to build my next LFS as a UTF-8. You a

Re: RFE: Mentioning optional dependencies

2005-12-28 Thread Jason Gurtz
I also believe that this would be an instructive and positive addition to the book. ~Jason -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: RFE: Mentioning optional dependencies

2005-12-28 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Randy McMurchy wrote: Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 12/28/05 18:28 CST: The subject says it all:) I would like to propose mentioning optional dependencies for packages that are installed in LFS. Since most of the packages are never mentioned in BLFS, the dependencies never get mentio

Re: RFE: Mentioning optional dependencies

2005-12-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 12/28/05 18:28 CST: > The subject says it all:) I would like to propose mentioning optional > dependencies for packages that are installed in LFS. Since most of the > packages are never mentioned in BLFS, the dependencies never get > mentioned. Good idea. The

Package Management

2005-12-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, Noted in Chapter 6.1 of LFS-SVN there is a recommended package manager. I believe this is in direct conflict with the BLFS take on Package Management (see the beginning paragraph of http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/introduction/important.html#intro-important-pkgmgt). I'm not

RFE: Mentioning optional dependencies

2005-12-28 Thread Tushar Teredesai
Hi: The subject says it all:) I would like to propose mentioning optional dependencies for packages that are installed in LFS. Since most of the packages are never mentioned in BLFS, the dependencies never get mentioned. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscrat

NewServer mention

2005-12-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, Noted in section 1.3.3 of LFS-SVN it still mentions the News Server is available. Perhaps this needs to be cleanup up. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 18:17:01 up 95 days, 3:41, 3

Re: LFS-Alphabetical ICA/Farce Results

2005-12-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/27/05, Greg Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > I think you may be right about not > > installing the locales for the purposes of ICA. I'm gonna change the > > locale installation to check for RUN_ICA in my scripts. > > Don't be too concerned with the locale-archi

Re: LFS-Alphabetical ICA/Farce Results

2005-12-28 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/27/05, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My memory is getting hazy (been a long day), but I have a suspicion > that bison might also be affected by the missing gettext. I'm moving flex and gettext up in the build. We'll see what happens. > The big hassle is trying to make sense o

Re: UTF-8 Comments

2005-12-28 Thread Randy McMurchy
Alan Lord wrote these words on 12/28/05 13:57 CST: > Please forgive [ignore] my intrusion to the list if it is unwelcome. It is certainly not unwelcome. However, discussion of UTF-8 issues on BLFS-Dev will mostly center around packages that need special descriptions, instructions or some other ne

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Re: UTF-8 book is ready for merging

2005-12-28 Thread Richard A Downing
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:04:13 + Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks very much for all your hard work on this Alexander. Da. +1. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page