Hi there LFS users, developers, and maintainers. I'm on my journey through the LFS book, but I can't help noticing (to the point of stopping me and making me go to the IRC room and ask questions) that the book may be lacking some critical information. For example, in section 3.1, it mentions that we can use a wget-list to download the packages in one command, although it requires going to the IRC support room in order to get this specific command, in case one does not understand how to use wget-list. Another fairly large step that seems to be missing, is mentioning when to extract the archives, and where to put the folders. (I'm assuming in the tools directory.) It's nice that the book goes into detail as to the commands for making directories, but it never says how to mass extract gzip or bzip2 archives. This can be very confusing to anyone who is new to this project, since if one step is missed, that can affect everything else.
Thank you for taking this message into consideration, I hope you will put it into action as well. ~TGP1994
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