Hi, Quoting Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:01:40PM +0100, Csan (Ja'nos Hola'nyi) wrote: > > Still, i feel like on the URL I included from linuxfromscratch.org, > your text > > could be interpreted in an ambigous way. > > I've come to realize that too (I've been thinking and re-reading the > intro > page after I wrote my email) and as such I'll remove the specific > references to distribution names and just put a generic term like > "regular > distributions" (as opposed to LFS that's not really considered regular > in > anybody's mind). I see how people can get offended by me calling Debian > or > Redhat by name. It was only meant to give an example of what I consider > a > regular distribution, but I'll just remove it and leave it up to the > reader > to decide for him/herself. Yes! <insert fanfare here> It was worth it... Thank you for being so open-minded and constructive. *grin* (Where's the champaign??!) With you acting as such, your project has already grown (back) into my eyes. ;) > So what do you learn from compiling that a pre-compiled binary doesn't > give > (at least that's what I think. If somebody doesn't agree, well we live > in a > free world ;o)? <nod nod> > > This list is debian-curiosa, and as such, I felt like that kind of > little pun > > could be tolerated (the 'debianfromscratch' part) ;) > > It's actually not a bad idea I think. There are people on the LFS > mailinglist I've seen who don't build LFS systems. They use the book as > a > guideline to build <insert favorite distro> from scratch (i've seen it > done > to Mandrake and Slackware). As I wrote, the debianfromscratch project is the Debian project itself. (and Debian/GNU Linux is, by nature, linuxfromscratch *grin*) Haven't you considered joining forces with the Debian project and write a patch to enable something like 'apt-get --compile --dest /dev/hda2 source linuxfromscratch'? (LOL) That way you'd have a solid stable Debian base and still have a partition where you could learn a lot - if not from the debian sources themselves :) > > E.g. If you spread your files all over your system following your own > rules than > > you will have real hard times finding somebody to help in case of > need. > > True. Consider this: > If you have enough Linux experience to be able to spread files around > all > over the place and breaking the standard conventions (like the FHS), > then > you most likely know exactly what you are doing and are not going to > need > any help from people that need to login to your system and do stuff. A very recent example: I joined #mozillazine on irc.mozilla.org for asking why I can't have mozilla 0.9.7 recognize my freshly installed jre1.4.0rc1, in spite of doing what the Mozilla relnotes said: 'ln -sf /path/to/jre/plugin.so libplugin.so' (don't remember the exact filenames). Among the first questions I got 'In which directory do you run that command?' - well at that point I realized I knew what they would going to say to my answer 'well, Mozilla installs in /usr/local by default, so that could be a point'... (well, I couldn't solve the problem with their help because of unknown reason, but that's a whole different story ;)) I hope you get the idea. Not crucial, but still. It applies quite often. You got to use the same terms and have the most similar environment for a quick answer to a quick question. > remaining things). Every distro should be FHS compliant to a certain > degree > so Debian people shouldn't have a hard time finding files on an LFS > system. That's a long story iirc (with some _other_ distros creating different standards). Long live the Open Source community! [EOT] Best wishes, Csan J�nos Hol�nyi Hungarian Association of Linux Users Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
