Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS Basic

2018-09-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 09/14/2018 03:44 AM, Cyrillo Baggins via blfs-dev wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:05 PM Alain Toussaint via blfs-dev > wrote: > Actually I prefer gdisk also, but fdisk from LFS can do msdos > partitions > as well so I felt gdisk w

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS Basic

2018-09-13 Thread Alain Toussaint via blfs-dev
> Actually I prefer gdisk also, but fdisk from LFS can do msdos > partitions > as well so I felt gdisk was redundant. Just my 0.02$ in that regard but for {u}efi, I prefer dealing with gdisk as opposed to parted but then again, I'm not a new user. Alain -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/lis

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS Basic

2018-09-12 Thread Brendan L via blfs-dev
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 12:21 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:54:42PM -0500, Brendan L via blfs-dev wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 4:52 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev >> wrote: >> > >> > Python2 and Mako are required for mesa. >> > >> >> Just thought I mention tha

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS Basic

2018-09-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 09/13/2018 12:05 AM, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: On 09/11/2018 03:30 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: I've been working on a concept that I am calling BLFS Basic.  This is basically a subset of BLFS Packages that should be a part of most systems after LFS.  I will attach my list at the

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS Basic

2018-09-12 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:54:42PM -0500, Brendan L via blfs-dev wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 4:52 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev > wrote: > > > > Python2 and Mako are required for mesa. > > > > Just thought I mention that Mesa git master converted all their python > scripts to support Python 3

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS Basic

2018-09-12 Thread DJ Lucas via blfs-dev
On 09/11/2018 03:30 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: I've been working on a concept that I am calling BLFS Basic.  This is basically a subset of BLFS Packages that should be a part of most systems after LFS.  I will attach my list at the end of this post. What I want to do is give new use

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS Basic

2018-09-12 Thread Brendan L via blfs-dev
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 4:52 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > >> If you hadn't mentioned Python2 as a dep of usbutils, I would have >> questioned why it was in 'basic'. Needed at the moment for rustc >> (that might change, since it might be that the weirdnesses I've seen >> in scripted rust

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS Basic

2018-09-12 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 04:52:28PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > On 09/12/2018 03:41 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 03:30:34PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > > What I want to do is give new users an idea of what to build first to > > >

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS Basic

2018-09-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 09/12/2018 03:41 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 03:30:34PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: What I want to do is give new users an idea of what to build first to flesh out their LFS systems into something usable. I don't have an opinion on whether or not

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS Basic

2018-09-12 Thread Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 03:30:34PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > > What I want to do is give new users an idea of what to build first to flesh > out their LFS systems into something usable. > I don't have an opinion on whether or not this is worthwhile, just questions / remarks about

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS Basic

2018-09-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
On 09/12/2018 01:47 AM, Thomas Trepl via blfs-dev wrote: Am Dienstag, den 11.09.2018, 15:30 -0500 schrieb Bruce Dubbs via blfs- dev: I've been working on a concept that I am calling BLFS Basic. I like the idea of building a separate book. Thanks Thomas. I will consider what you said. I se

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS Basic

2018-09-11 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-dev
Am Dienstag, den 11.09.2018, 15:30 -0500 schrieb Bruce Dubbs via blfs- dev: > I've been working on a concept that I am calling BLFS Basic. This > is > basically a subset of BLFS Packages that should be a part of most > systems after LFS. I will attach my list at the end of this post. > > What

[blfs-dev] BLFS Basic

2018-09-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev
I've been working on a concept that I am calling BLFS Basic. This is basically a subset of BLFS Packages that should be a part of most systems after LFS. I will attach my list at the end of this post. What I want to do is give new users an idea of what to build first to flesh out their LFS s

Re: [blfs-dev] blfs-basic. addendum about contributing.

2018-07-18 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:32:05PM -0400, Jean-Marc Pigeon wrote: > Hello. > > This is follow up about sddm+lxqt contribution > and comment about the blfs-basic thread reading suggested > by Ken. > > 1) Seems I proposed myself to take care of page > about lxqt and sddm (chapter 26). > It's u

[blfs-dev] blfs-basic. addendum about contributing.

2018-07-17 Thread Jean-Marc Pigeon
Hello. This is follow up about sddm+lxqt contribution and comment about the blfs-basic thread reading suggested by Ken. 1) Seems I proposed myself to take care of page about lxqt and sddm (chapter 26). The best way for me to handle it, is to have access to commit within a specific g

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS-Basic

2018-07-13 Thread thomas
Am 2018-07-09 22:08, schrieb Bruce Dubbs: ... In addition, upstream changes are released often. The average is about 3.5 packages every day, seven days a week. ... To address this, I am proposing to split BLFS into two (or possibly more) books. My tentative names are BLFS-Basic and BLFS-Advance

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS-Basic

2018-07-11 Thread Armin K.
On 9.7.2018. 22:08, Bruce Dubbs wrote: As most of you know, BLFS is huge.  If it is printed on paper, it would take over 2000 pages.  There are over a thousand individual packages in the book. In addition, upstream changes are released often.  The average is about 3.5 packages every day, seve

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS-Basic

2018-07-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 07/10/2018 07:46 AM, Douglas R. Reno wrote: I'm of the opinion that we should do one more release of the book as it is and then discuss things after that. I'm  willing to put in as much time as needs to be put in to keep everything in the book that is currently in there, for one more releas

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS-Basic

2018-07-10 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Montag, den 09.07.2018, 15:08 -0500 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: > As most of you know, BLFS is huge. If it is printed on paper, it > would > take over 2000 pages. There are over a thousand individual packages > in > the book. Wow, never seen that in this way... > In addition, upstream changes are

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS-Basic

2018-07-10 Thread DJ Lucas
On July 9, 2018 4:09:35 PM CDT, Ken Moffat wrote: >On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 03:08:49PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> I am now looking for feedback. Are there other solutions? Is my >list for >> BLFS-Basic too large? Is there something missing? >> > >After spending 30 minutes attempting to re

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS-Basic

2018-07-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 03:08:49PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > I am now looking for feedback. Are there other solutions? Is my list for > BLFS-Basic too large? Is there something missing? > After spending 30 minutes attempting to reply, and realising there are too many potential variations,

[blfs-dev] BLFS-Basic

2018-07-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
As most of you know, BLFS is huge. If it is printed on paper, it would take over 2000 pages. There are over a thousand individual packages in the book. In addition, upstream changes are released often. The average is about 3.5 packages every day, seven days a week. Since LFS/BLFS contribu