> > That's unfortunate. BLFS is much harder to use now. > > > In what way is it harder ? The releases were always a little out of > date (or very out of date!), and for the development book it has > always been best to download a tarball of the book so that it doesn't > change under you. Mostly, changing under you has only broken parts > of gnome if you picked a bad time to read the book, but YMMV.
I'm more interested in using my system than in building it. I make tools when I need to use them. I use them as long as I can, until I'm forced to make new ones. The only reason I'm upgrading from my LFS-6.1 is that the Firefox-2.0.0.16 browser is missing too many functions new webpages are using. 80% of my hardware is salvage--I'm retired and on Social Security--and the speed deficit isn't critical to me. This is a Pentium III 1.4GHz "Tualatin" box. It's fast enough for daily stuff. I use the "Conroe" for big compiles. It has been my habit to download the stable tarball, faster when it's on my computer, and I can build "standalone". But obviously from the above, your old habit of stable releases gave me something I was more certain would all work together without problems. Now I'm trying to build from svn-101016 r8641 and I have an MTRR error in X-7.5-3 that I cannot figure out how to fix. It seems it was a "long standing" error in libpciaccess, but it's still there with a newer version that was supposed to fix it. I don't need to be on the bleeding edge. I want stable. I want works without errors. > > Certainly. I do have goals to get to. But a newbie would, I think, > > benefit from being told that (s)he needs to build certain > > dependencies, with PERHAPS some guidance to what a good set would > > be, before getting to the goal of a functional desktop. > > That doesn't make sense to me - dependencies are something you build > because you need them, not some set of common packages you install > because something else might need them. Maybe the reason for that is I have a touch of Asperger's Syndrome. It makes me want things very organized. I have a plan for what I want from my LFS system. I plan, then execute, first things first. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
