I have been looking at the book. Also as Ken mentioned, there are too many packages in the book which makes it hard to maintain. Anyways, here is my oppinion on which and why some of the packages could be possibly removed from the book.
Heimdal-1.4 or MIT Kerberos V5-1.6 - I don't know about you guys, but having 2 packages for Kerberos5 implementation is unnecesary in BLFS. I always use MIT Kerberos because I mostly link against it's libraries and such. Never used Heimdal, but it claims to do the same. PolicyKit-0.9 - Unmaintained, replaced by polkit-0.102 ScrollKeeper-0.3.14 - We've been on this once. Unmaintained, Rarian provides it's functionality now. HAL-0.5.14 - Discussed earlier. It's unmaintained and obsoleted by udisks/upower/gvfs/whatever. packagekit-0.7.1 - Absolutely not necesary - neither lfs nor blfs use any package management. Also, all applications can be made not to even require it's libraries. Inetutils-1.9.1 - Clients are installed during LFS build and whois is provided by other packages. Telling that, only servers remain which are insecure by nature - you stated it in the book, I think. Anyways, xinetd has been recently removed which managed those servers. gnome-packagekit-3.2.1 - Same reason as for packagekit-0.7.1 Cdrtools-2.01 - It's functionality is mostly used with dvd+rw-tools-7.1. Debian has a patch that implicitly adds cdrkit code into genisoimage - If anyone is interested to look at it, find it on http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/dvd+rw-tools/7.1-10 LPRng-3.8.B - This may be necesary, but CUPS-1.5.0 provides all binaries it does. FOP-1.0 - Requires Java XML Graphics stuff which isn't in the book. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
