Em 18-01-2014 12:49, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: >> >> Yes, I completely I agree, and have modified some parts of the book >> according. > > I agree too, but recommended != required. Many times users don't know > if they need or will want a dependency that is not required. I feel the > Recommended section provides advice to users in that situation. > > Of course users are free to not follow the recommendation. That's a > part of the choice the getting in BLFS.
Thanks, Bruce. That was exactly what I failed to explain: there is choice either including or excluding items in book's instruction. > My position is that packages in the Recommended vs Optional sections > should mostly reflect the editor's judgement of what the user will want > when using the package. It is just advice and part of the value added > when using BLFS. Another point that I like: the inclusion, anywhere in the page, of anything considered as recommended, this inclusion depends not only on strict rules, but also on the editor's judgement. And the user can do differently adding or subtracting. I kept thinking about this post for several days, then started reading other related posts, and searching the book and my archive. There are many places where the instructions, text, etc, were included only because the editor wanted. Several are customizations. Searching a little more, I discovered simple and nice customizations introduced by many editors: Bruce, Andy and Armin... It comes from several years. This is the way that the editors wanted and want the book to be. Further research surprised me: apparently all editors (possible exception to Ragnar) have edited at least one of these customized pages, so, implicitly agreed with them: Andy, Armin, Bruce, Fernando, Igor, Ken, Pierre, Randy... Please, find attached a list of packages, customizations, author. Another point is that the large majority of editors/devs/contributors have never been against, on the contrary even encouraged (two come to my mind). Therefore, two reverted modifications I did, I am redoing, this time based on documented precedents. I am doing nothing new or absurd. So sorry if I disappoint someone. It is not fair that only for me, Fernando, these customization instructions be denied to be included in the book. Pierre, thanks for explicitly writing your opinion, that I much appraise. It is in respect for you, the only one who gave an opinion against, that I changed the modifications with respect to what I had done before, delayed the commit to be done only after I had documented my points. Now it it more than my humble opinion. I hope I am offering you a different perspective, less rigid than what we are used to, in Physics, yet, based in facts. Randy, I did the modifications you wanted, and I hope you understand that I may have misunderstood and they were not what you were referring to. As Armin has included many customizations and commented that your post was perfectly valid, I understand now that you were referring only to the dependencies. So, thanks for correcting me. Thanks. -- []s, Fernando
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