Kevin Williams wrote:

> I think, my first question wasn't what it was intended to be. Certainly 
> it was my fault.
> I was trying to know, if I start jhalfs and configure it for BLFS, would 
> it start with the
> commands from BLFS or would it start with LFS and then proceed to BLFS ?

Well with this you can only configure one book at a time, so you first 
configure and build LFS, then configure and build BLFS.
> 
have been
>   installed using the tool". Thus, I couldn't tell if it only saved 
> package names
> OR tar.gz'd package OR the individual files of a package or their names.

It only saves the package names and possibly the versions.

> 
>  >It's possible, there was a patch to add paco support to jhalfs that was
>  >included in a few of the past versions of jhalfs, but it wasn't being
>  >maintained by the person who created it for a while and was eventually
>  >removed.
> 
> Yeah ! I read that ! What was discussed was about the xsl files. Which 
> would require
> knowing xls !! I were wondering if I could simply insert a command 
> somewhere. I guess,
> I found a way. It is not so easy and would require editing each of the 
> scripts and changing
> the 'make install' lines. Possibly some scripting using sed can achieve 
> this. Not sure,
> how I could do the same for those packages which, do not include a 'make 
> install' line and
> those which, dynamically create files (convert-mans script which 
> converts man pages for eg.).
Unfortunately that's why doing it at the xsl level works best, then it's 
already generated and doesn't require manual editing.
> 
> Personally I feel that, package management is necessary keeping in mind, 
> 100's if not 1000's of
> files abandoned by packages that were upgraded somewhere along the time. 
> Without PM, it becomes really difficult to keep track of files which are 
> no longer needed. I use paco for this. only to keep track of installed 
> files (for clean removal).
> 

I would agree about that too, package management is almost necessary, 
removal is one benefit, I use it more for knowing what the heck I have 
installed on the system, especially if I want to add a new package.

Thomas


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