On 05/14/2013 12:03:37 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > > I'd link to the actual post under > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev with my > > suggestions of obvious cleavage lines to break BLFS into separate > > books, but the mailing list archive is 404. > > Try searching > http://www.mail-archive.com/blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org/
That archive doesn't go back far enough. (January 2012.) And archive.org hasn't recorded the actual archive since 2007... Ah, here we go: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel/20066 In which I said: > Suggestions are welcome. Volunteers are required. LFS is skating by > with > only two people contributing. BLFS needs much more support than that. I've used BLFS to build basic X11 support, and I've used it to build a few servers. I cherry picked because building the whole thing is ridiculous. Possibly it's time to split the thing into smaller chunks? The layers I see are (roughly): 1) Infrastructure (chapters 3, 5-8, 10-12). 2) Networking (chapters 4, 13-22) 3) Multimedia (chapters 9, 23-25, 31-44) And then separate appendices on KDE and Gnome and XFCE and such. What I'm looking at is "what might people want to skip?" A headless box may not need any of the multimedia stuff. A DVD player may not need any of the networking stuff. (It's likely that #2 and #3 are going to need things out of #1, but they need stuff out of the base LFS too, prerequisites are inevitable you just try to keep them under control.) Rob -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
