I'm well-know for encouraging people to look at what distros are doing (if you go beyond BLFS, or use newer version or other architectures). Recently I've been struggling with multimedia, where my main choices (fedora, debian) are often lacking because of patent or licence issues.
In the past, google has found references to PLD (Polish Linux Distribution) patches on some of my searches, but I never managed to find a working link. Now I have one: http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/packages/ Today, I've been heading further up the creek trying to understand how to reconfigure after one of the patches, and I stumbled on PackMan - they seem to provide packages targeted at OpenSuse and are at http://packman.links2linux.org/packages - not quite as easy, because they only provide source rpms so you'll need an rpm2cpio script and cpio (like mandriva, OpenSuse when available, and even fedora-development) ,but then most people near the bleeding edge probably already have those tools. Hope this helps. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
