> > 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.
> >
Well, Christopher..., nice to meet you too.
I don't see the point in all the previous 'speech', really. I must recognize
that your answer surprised me quite a lot, showing such an aggressive attitude,
since I'm convinced that nothing justifies it (not in my case at least). You
give the impression that you were just waiting, hiding in the corner, for the
first person in this list to ask something that triggers your 'alarm sensor' to
dump all your stored complains on him/her (for a man that claims he has 'spent
many hours putting together this material',...man..., you should have think
more before answering).
I think Akh below, clarifies why your answer was unfair and unjustifiable.
>
> 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/ .
>
Thanks for your answer Akh.
Yes, as you very well mentioned, in the introduction of BLFS states exactly
that, giving the new user the idea that you can directly jump , or at least I
understand it that way, to the package you need and compile/install it right
away, leaving the linear way used for the LFS, since you already have a working
LFS system.
That's why I started directly from X Windows. I think (maybe) that it should be
made more clear in that intro that, despite of that non-linear way of adding
things from BLFS, you still need to read chapter 3 and do what it is stated
there (thanks to David Brodie for pointing me to it).
Marcos
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