On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:32:49PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > I didn't fully proofread yet, but I think it looks great so far. And > you got the ed dependency in. Awesome.
Perhaps what ever needs ed can be converted to sed? It's getting to the point where only gray beards remember how to use ed. I'm really surprised xorg-7 requires it. Anyway, here's my observations: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dj/blfs-x7-temp/x/installing.html The intro page seems to lack flow. It intermixes xorg vs. xfree with xorg 6.9 vs xorg 7. The flow of why xorg/xfree should be first and self-contained, followed with why 6.9/7.0. A note that 6.9's build process mimics 6.8 might help people make a more informed decision as well. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dj/blfs-x7-temp/x/xorg7.html make && make install if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then break #stop the build if the previous command failed fi cd .. && The if/then doesn't make sense to me. I'm guessing you used that because if any && command fails, bash jumps to the next command that doesn't have a && (like rm -rf $packagedir) and happily tries to carry on. set -e should alleviate that and allow all &&'s to be removed, but this is just a preferential thing. On this same page, in the note box: s/likey/likely/ A general note for many of the pages deals with the replaceable tags. You've provided a path in the tags where <prefix> would be less confusing. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dj/blfs-x7-temp/x/x-setup.html This page has a note about xterm, but doesn't mention that you could instead just remove the xterm command from xinitrc in favor of another term program (like gnome-terminal or xfce-terminal) installed later. Also, the following sentences are misleading: "When installing X, symlinks were created from the OTF and TTF X font directories to /usr/share/fonts/X11-{OTF,TTF}. This prevents Fontconfig from using the poorly rendered Type1 fonts or the non-scalable bitmapped fonts." We don't symlink to avoid conflict with Fontconfig, we install fonts in another directory to avoid conflicts, then symlink non-conflicting fonts to the fontconfig-controlled directory. Fontconfig and extra fonts: There seems to be 2 types of font packages; those fontconfig will use by default, those it won't. I'm assuming nothing needs to be done for the former and it just works? As for the latter, do they all require replacing an existing font family like the dejavu example shows? The usernotes link is way down on the page. That's all the help this layman can provide. I'm still using xorg from a year ago at least. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
