On 08/12/2013 04:21 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:46:27AM +0200, Armin K. wrote: >> >> "Rather than offering you the illusion of the free choice, I'll take the >> liberty of choosing for you." >> > [snip] > > I understand where you are coming from, even though I loathe the > example (pulse - for me it doesn't bring any benefits, and just > complicates things). > > It seems a plausible stance to take throughout BLFS, but I guess > the likely consequence will be that exactly one desktop environment > will be supported (and 'startx' will be regarded as an intermediate > step on the way). I'm not sure that many of our users will like > that. >
Not quite. On a standard prefix setup (everything into /usr), I have 3 desktop environments and 3 display managers. From each DM, I can choose whichever desktop I like. Upgrade is somehow painful (takes a lot of time), but is not impossible when you do it right - for example I track installed files (simply using find) and first remove everything before installing newer version. > OTOH, since I can't build LFS svn at the moment, you can feel free > to disregard my comments until such time as I can again contribute > :-) > > Seriously, BLFS used to be about providing choice. Some of the > past deecisions meant that editing was hard (e.g. building things > like TeX for docs), but people seemed to mostly manage to get > working systems. Or perhaps they just gave up - I've no idea (I > only see the mails which appear on the lists). Maybe the scope of > BLFS is too broad ? (yes, I dread writing that because it may open > up the "separate books" discussion again, but unless there are > enough active developers / editors then the project goes nowhere. > > ĸen > Well, the "not enough active developers / editors" is the first thing that came to my mind when I said about choice. If we keep telling to offer a choice that has a lot of variants, but don't have enough manpower to test every configuration, we will probably get hit by some bugs that we never accounted for. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
