On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 18:34, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev <lfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > OTOH, personally, I like meson/ninja. I wish it were used more often. > They have nothing to do with systemd.
For some reason, I had thought that there was a package in the SysD build that was "so new" that it had never had an autotools system but had been tooled, from the start, with meson/ninja, hence them being required. > > Given that LFS used to start from the view that one only built > > what was needed to build the LFS-system, and never warming > > to the systemd camp fire, i've always felt Ninja and Meson to be > > a kind of feature-creep and so was wondering if that could be > > made more explicit, so that people could see that Ninja and Meson > > could happily be left out until BLFS. > > (Though there's no getting away from them there: more's the pity!) > > OTOH, personally, I like meson/ninja. I wish it were used more often. > They have nothing to do with systemd, In that case, I withdraw the suggestion and apologise for any confusion that suggestion might cause for anyone else reading this thread. It sounds as though nothing in LFS, neither SysV nor SysD, currently requires meson/ninja and that promulgating them, as extra packages to be built here, was simply a choice that's been made, rather than leaving them for BLFS. Might I playfully suggest that LFS should find a package that could optionally be built with CMake, so as to introduce new readers to that build system here too, rather than making them wait for that joy in BLFS.. Seriously, thanks for the correction: I will now look to render a SysD version of the Book that doesn't use them, not that I often render a SysD version, Kevin -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
