> From: Christopher Gregory <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 02:39:56 +1200
> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Chapter 24: Installation of Xorg Libraries for
> XFCE
>
> On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 15:28 +0200, Marcos Menendez wrote:
> > Now, in Chapter 24: X Window System Environment page
> > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/x/xorg7.html
> > we can read
> > 'Create an /etc/profile.d/xorg.sh configuration file containing these
> > variables as the root user: '
> >
> > When I run it, it complains with
> > '-su: /etc/profile.d/xorg.sh: No such file or directory'
> >
> > And that is right because directory '/etc/profile.d' does not exist in my
> > LFS installation.
> >
> > Is it part of another needed package or can I proceed with the installation
> > of Xorg by ignoring it?
> >
> >
> > Marcos
>
> Hello Marcos,
>
> This may sound rather harsh, but it needs to be said. When we put the
> books together the packages and all the information required to get both
> the base LFS and BLFS systems up and running.
>
> It is stated in a number of places in the LFS book that you need to
> actually follow things through and not just jump ahead to what YOU think
> should be done.
>
> You are obviously not following the instructions, because if you were,
> then you would not be posting on the list.
>
> These lists are for genuine issues with regards to the published
> instructions, and not for us to teach you how to follow printed
> instructions.
>
> A number of us have spent many hours putting together this material.
>
> Some have been with linux from scratch for a number of years.
>
> Christopher.
>
Hmmm. Is that possibly being a bit unfair?
*IF* /etc/profile.d/ is created in LFS, then fair enough. I've just grepped
through lfs 7.5 incl bootscripts, and no mention of 'profile.d' .
But *IF* it's only created in BLFS, then perhaps arguably much less so.
For, of course, LFS is intended to be followed in a linear
fashion, doing basically all items en route: whereas of
course BLFS is well-known and openly acknowledged to be
non-linear; even e.g. BLFS "Which Sections of the Book Do I Want?"
('http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/introduction/which.html')
doesn't give anywhere-near-direct instructions _to_ create /etc/profile.d/ .
rgds,
akh
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