On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:22:11PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote:
> In LFS-7.2 we removed resizecons because at that time it only
> installed on "i386" and it was generally useless for LFS users. My
> explanation said:
>
> Remove the redundant resizecons program (32-bit x86 only, needs the
> defunct svgalib, which predates linux-2.6 and is incompatible with
> modern KMS, to provide the video mode files - for normal use setfont
> sizes the console appropriately) and its manpage.
>
> Meanwhile, SuSe sent a patch upstream to build it in x86_64 as well
> as i386. So, we are stuck with it and Matt removed the seds and
> touch (correctly, IMHO - we don't usually remove programs just
> because they are useless, it was the "manpage but no program"
> situation on x86_64 that triggered this action).
>
Meanwhile, I'm still updating my buildscripts - just got to r10099
(procps-ng) and I see that we *do* sometimes disable redundant
programs:
--disable-skill
This switch disables the obsolete and unportable skill and snice
commands.
So perhaps we should just disable them again ? I've given up
caring wither way, I'd just like the book to be consistent in what
is documented ;-)
> But the resizecons program is now not listed among what is
> installed, and therefore has no description. Should we just
> reinstate the description, without telling people that in an
> LFS/BLFS context it is pretty much useless, or should we add it with
> a note something like "Using this needs the defunct svgalib." ?
>
> ĸen
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