Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > We need to discuss the requested new packages on the ticket list: > Lm_sensors > SWIG > Bazar > Mercurial > Fuse > Convmv
> Are these needed in blfs? Personally, I have no need for them. I have > used mercurial once (to get a firefox snapshot, but with all the beta > and nightly builds available I cant see why we need it). Regarding > lm_sensors, I think it's overkill to install just to monitor CPU > temperature (can be done without it). Regarding bazar, mysql uses it, > but I think we should stick to stable releases. I use the kernel fuse > module to mount my ntfs partition (using ntfs-3g), but the fuse > userspace tools are not required to do this. I think Lm_sensors measures more than just CPU temperature. I know several people that use it pretty regularly. Bazar is used by GRUB and LSB also. I don't really care for it, but it is used. I haven't used Mercurial myself, but it would make the version control software in the book a bit more complete. SWIG is mentioned in the book in several places so I think it's a reasonable candidate for inclusion. I'm not familiar enough with Fuse for Convmv to comment. > I have no specific plans in the next weeks, other than updating KDE to > 4.8.3 when it gets released on May 1. OK. If you feel like grabbing a few open tickets, that would be good. > Xorg should also be updated when libX11 1.5 gets released, but I think > several of us are willing to work on this. Agree. >> Perhaps we should discuss an overall plan. Do we want to make any major >> changes >> or settle back to a maintenance mode for a while? Should we tackle a LiveCD >> again? > > Well, I haven't done a liveCD before, so I'm not sure what work is > needed in this regard. There is the separate LiveCD project, but that is dormant. I'd think that there would need to be two: 64-bit and 32-bit. It would require building LFS and enough of BLFS to boot, set up networking, start a window manager of some type (probably not Gnome or KDE), have many of the build tools -- version control, ruby, python, etc. The kernel would need to be modular with most of the drivers set up as modules. The books would need to be there of course and perhaps an ability to install LFS into an empty partition. That can be a bit of a problem though with other distros controlling/updating grub.cfg. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
