Re: LFS Direction: (Tangent to Get native or die!)

2005-11-18 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 05:16 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would ask,"Are either of those truly part of the main purpose of LFS?" > >From the book,"The goal of Linux From Scratch is to build a complete and > usable foundation-level system." The book already builds the kernel and > inetutil

Re: LFS Direction: (Tangent to Get native or die!)

2005-11-17 Thread Jim Gifford
I understand your concerns, as one of the developers of Cross-LFS, we see the following scenario. Since most of stuff is based on LFS, we will feed changes into LFS and LFS will feed changes into Cross-LFS. Both books are different but have a common ground, the final end product. I can speak f

Re: LFS Direction: (Tangent to Get native or die!)

2005-11-17 Thread silverspurg
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Dan Nicholson wrote: On 11/17/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would ask,"Are either of those truly part of the main purpose of LFS?" That's narrow-minded. Support for those who speak any language isn't That's name-calling. Argument done. All furthe

Re: LFS Direction: (Tangent to Get native or die!)

2005-11-17 Thread Alan Lord
Dan Nicholson wrote: So, you obviously didn't read Alexander's UTF-8 book or make any attempt at investigation before making this statement. Look at Alexander's book. UTF-8 involves more than a few cosmetic changes from the very beginning. It's not just something you can decide in BLFS and sa

Re: LFS Direction: (Tangent to Get native or die!)

2005-11-17 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/17/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would ask,"Are either of those truly part of the main purpose of LFS?" That's narrow-minded. Support for those who speak any language isn't a worthy goal? As long as you're covered I guess. Fact is, UTF-8 support has been a goal for

Re: LFS Direction: (Tangent to Get native or die!)

2005-11-17 Thread silverspurg
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote: Are there any plans to merge any of these separate streams into the main book? Unicode, particularly, must be the way of the future, like IPV6 must be the way of the future, however badly they are being handled now. I would ask,"Are either of those tr

LFS Direction: (Tangent to Get native or die!)

2005-11-17 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > Ali Servet Donmez wrote: > >I'm aware that, LFS does not reccomend or support > >Unicode support; but > >since i'm more confused with every document that i > >read about locales, > >keymaps, lang. supports, iso, UTF etc. this is still a > >valid ques