Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote:
Hi.
I've been an LFS user for quite a long time now, and there's one thing
(only ONE thing !) I don't like in the books : I'm used to put all the
packages I download in a directory just above /sources
(namely /sources/LFS or /sources/BLFS), and when I install a package,
there's sometimes some extra stuff to use, for example a patch, or some
extra documentation, or datas...
The instructions are allways refering to this extra material being placed
in the /sources directory (or whatever directory you use to build your
packages). Couldn't it be more practical to refer to a $BLFS_PACKAGES
variable, to permit everyone to put it wherever they want ? A variable
that should be initialized at the beginning of the books, just like $LFS
or $XORG_PREFIX or others...
Isn't this a good idea ?
No, it's not - it is completely unnecessary. $LFS/sources is only
mentioned once in LFS (well, ok, twice...), and even then it's really
just a suggestion - the source directory could be anywhere and called
anything you like, and no package instructions in either LFS or BLFS
refer to any source dir specifically anyway.
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