Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread William Harrington
On Dec 23, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Judging from LFS, many people skip things like the preface. I don't > know how many times users have run into problems because they didn't > read the preface and run the host requirements script. I also do note that in LFS, in places where the L

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: >> From: Bruce Dubbs >>> Might it be best addressed in blfs chapter 2 or 3, if it's considered to >>> be a 'global', 'overview' kind of issue? BLFS users are ~expected to have >>> processed those chapters. That would help avoid a lot of repetition >>> elsewhere? >> >> From a pract

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: > ISTR that at a time, it was said that any page in the X chapter was a prereq > for the following. That explains why the pages are not in alphabetical order. > And that's how I implemented it in jhalfs-blfs (same for the KDE chapter, > actually). The Xorg pages are arrange

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 23/12/2013 16:56, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > akhiezer wrote: >>> From: William Harrington >>> To: BLFS Support List >>> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 04:07:25 -0600 >>> Subject: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS >>> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread William Harrington
On Dec 23, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Might it be best addressed in blfs chapter 2 or 3, if it's >> considered to >> be a 'global', 'overview' kind of issue? BLFS users are ~expected >> to have >> processed those chapters. That would help avoid a lot of repetition >> elsewhere? >

Re: [blfs-support] Complete Backup of {,B}LFS

2013-12-23 Thread akhiezer
> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 07:59:22 -0600 > From: Dan McGhee > To: BLFS Support List > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Complete Backup of {,B}LFS > . . > I am always quite interested in what one word or phrase means to > different people. [...] - yes, this cropped up in aforenoted e

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread akhiezer
> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 09:56:24 -0600 > From: Bruce Dubbs > To: BLFS Support List > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS > > >> . . > > > > > > Might it be best addressed in blfs chapter 2 or 3, if it's considered to > > be a 'global', 'over

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
akhiezer wrote: >> From: William Harrington >> To: BLFS Support List >> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 04:07:25 -0600 >> Subject: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS >> >> Greetings, >> >> There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg deps when someone follows the >> links for required

Re: [blfs-support] Complete Backup of {,B}LFS

2013-12-23 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/23/2013 06:01 AM, akhiezer wrote: Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:43:13 +0100 From: Aleksandar Kuktin To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Complete Backup of {,B}LFS This looks really interesting and I want to "play" with it. But what I want *is* a clone, an exact

Re: [blfs-support] Complete Backup of {,B}LFS

2013-12-23 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/22/2013 08:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Dan McGhee wrote: > >> Ubuntu can be, at times, as "hinky" as Windows. As I randomly checked >> directories and files for permissions. The uid's and gid's for all the >> package users were indicated for files. However, when I checked my home >> directory

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread akhiezer
> From: William Harrington > To: BLFS Support List > Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 04:07:25 -0600 > Subject: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS > > Greetings, > > There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg deps when someone follows the > links for required dependencies of Xorg li

Re: [blfs-support] Complete Backup of {,B}LFS

2013-12-23 Thread akhiezer
> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:43:13 +0100 > From: Aleksandar Kuktin > To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Complete Backup of {,B}LFS > . . > > > > > This looks really interesting and I want to "play" with it. But what > > I want *is* a clone, an exact

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Em 23-12-2013 07:07, William Harrington escreveu: > Greetings, > > There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg deps when someone follows the > links for required dependencies of Xorg libs. > > An example: > > When a user attempts to build WIreshark, the require deps will take > them all the way to

[blfs-support] Xorg required dep when following links in BLFS

2013-12-23 Thread William Harrington
Greetings, There is a problem with BLFS and Xorg deps when someone follows the links for required dependencies of Xorg libs. An example: When a user attempts to build WIreshark, the require deps will take them all the way to xorg-proto. I have also been told that util-macros isn't required