Re: Pipe Dreams

2007-11-23 Thread Kevin Buckley
On 21/11/2007, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Buckley wrote these words on 11/21/07 10:58 CST: Thanks (I think !?) for responding in such detail to my thoughts, although I reckon that some of the questions you raise at the start of the reply were actually answered later on in th

Re: Pipe Dreams

2007-11-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Kevin Buckley wrote these words on 11/21/07 10:58 CST: > > I can't see that the LFS/BLF wiki is the place to add such stuff. Where else would you suggest? The Wiki's original concept was to provide a place where users in the community could document anything not in the book that they feel would b

Re: Pipe Dreams

2007-11-21 Thread Kevin Buckley
On 20/11/2007, Daniel Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whatever reasons a person might pick a distro usually is one of personal > preference and of what particular use they are specifically aiming for. I > do, and I wouldn't be surprised if others did consider lfs/blfs a distro in > its own righ

Re: Pipe Dreams

2007-11-21 Thread Alan Lord
Daniel Myers wrote: ... I knew that there was no way using > any other distro that I would have been able to achieve exactly what I was > after in terms of configuration and abilities while running. Course I still > need to finish configuring some stuff, and finish building the scripts for > it.

Re: Pipe Dreams

2007-11-21 Thread Alan Lord
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > P.S. The system above also boots to the command prompt in about 15 > seconds, not that booting is required often. The uptime right now is > 245 days. For servers I completely agreee - I am just finishing off one right now that is based on LFS6.3 + some BLFS + Asterisk.

RE: Pipe Dreams

2007-11-20 Thread Daniel Myers
November 20, 2007 1:15 PM To: BLFS Development List Subject: Re: Pipe Dreams Alan Lord wrote: > There have been other threads similar to this and I wonder if there is > something not quite right about the whole discussion... > > It seems to me that there are many individuals who hav

Re: Pipe Dreams

2007-11-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alan Lord wrote: > There have been other threads similar to this and I wonder if there is > something not quite right about the whole discussion... > > It seems to me that there are many individuals who have learned and > loved the whole LFS/BLFS experience (I count myself in this group BTW).

Re: Pipe Dreams

2007-11-20 Thread Alan Lord
Hans-Joachim Widmaier wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: Lots of good stuff... Now that I've built BLFS a dozen > times, I'd like to learn how do get the icing on the cake. Just like > with the basic steps, I could use a little help (and hopefully give a > little, too). > > Best wishes, > Hans-Joa

Re: Pipe Dreams

2007-11-20 Thread Hans-Joachim Widmaier
Randy McMurchy wrote: > You are correct in saying that there really are no guidelines > for the Wiki. It has been assumed that folks will put info out > there that could be deemed helpful to others. If you feel the > info you have is helpful, put it on the Wiki in whatever manner > you feel is best

Re: Pipe Dreams

2007-11-19 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hans-Joachim Widmaier wrote these words on 11/18/07 03:41 CST: > Sure. But now you have 2 pages, and one of them is in a (more or less) > random format. There are no guidelines for the wiki (or didn't I search > enough?). You are correct in saying that there really are no guidelines for the Wiki.

RE: Pipe Dreams

2007-11-18 Thread Daniel Myers
I could have expanded on those two areas a bit more. What I specifically meant by free-form, was that software packages could be added to the wiki easily and consistently. And have it organized by software then by version of the software so that even if a specific build was needed than it could be

Re: Pipe Dreams

2007-11-18 Thread Hans-Joachim Widmaier
Hi. Daniel Myers wrote: > First, could have a little more free-form wiki, free-form more being in what > is added or included in the wiki. So if someone were to build openvpn say > for example's sake, they could add an entry to the wiki on openvpn. > Organize the entries by software, and version

RE: Pipe Dreams

2007-11-18 Thread Daniel Myers
Hello, I had actually been thinking about a couple of things of related note here. First, could have a little more free-form wiki, free-form more being in what is added or included in the wiki. So if someone were to build openvpn say for example's sake, they could add an entry to the wiki on open

Re: Pipe Dreams

2007-11-18 Thread Hans-Joachim Widmaier
Hi Bruce, Thanks for the reply. Some of your points I foresaw, but that doesn't invalidate them. Bruce Dubbs wrote: > 1. Each page of the BLFS has a link to a wiki page. Users are free > to add to them, so you can help the community there if you would like. Sure. But now you have 2 pages, a

Re: Pipe Dreams

2007-11-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Hans, Thanks you for your feedback. There are a couple of things you touched on that you might want to consider. 1. Each page of the BLFS has a link to a wiki page. Users are free to add to them, so you can help the community there if you would like. 2. For automation, take a look at