Re: Merry Christmas

2005-12-25 Thread silverspurg
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Gerard Beekmans wrote: Merry Christmas to you all. I hope it is a good one for everybody. Easy on the spiced egg nogg ;) Sip... don't gulp. Gulping would be rough. Merry Christmas! Steven -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ:

Re: Alphabetical branch status report

2005-12-12 Thread silverspurg
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I want to add my opinion to this issue. After reading many posts about the alphabetizing of the packages, I still do not see any practical value. I'm not really opposed either. I just feel its more effort than its worth. In the absence of any

Re: Hand holding (Was: Re: Post LFS-6.1.1 plans)

2005-11-28 Thread silverspurg
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, sash wrote: gullible? or kind, understanding and compassionate? You always put such a nice spin on things, sash. :) Steven -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: config.site questions

2005-11-02 Thread silverspurg
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Its buried fairly deeply in the autoconf documentation. Its always useful to point out these types of things. That's really one of the primary purposes of the whole project. You do speak the truth. I don't remember how I came across config.site but I

Re: config.site questions

2005-11-01 Thread silverspurg
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Dan Nicholson wrote: I think this would be an extremely useful addition. It teaches the user about config.site, and the book already sets other variables at Doesn't anyone read the documentation anymore? :) I can understand needing to teach them about configure...

Re: Annoucement - CLFS

2005-11-01 Thread silverspurg
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Jim Gifford wrote: The CLFS Project. Cross Linux From Scratch is a book dedicated to building on various architectures. Currently we have Alpha, Sparc, PowerPC, x86, and x86_64 architectures in the book. Cross LFS will teach you how to build a cross architecture

Re: config.site

2005-10-30 Thread silverspurg
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Archaic wrote: the need to do things manually. Repetition is good for learning while building LFS. I second this. Steven -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: config.site

2005-10-30 Thread silverspurg
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Dan Nicholson wrote: Because the current way has symlinks /usr/man - /usr/share/man, etc. It would be nice to get rid of these depending on how picky you are. Why don't we just have a regular /usr/man directory? Why get rid of them at all? What's the rationale behind

Re: config.site

2005-10-30 Thread silverspurg
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Randy McMurchy wrote: The only thing I can think of is this is how it was many, many moons ago, and the devs simply haven't updated their defaults to conform with modern standards. That's actually pretty good. :))) Steven -- --

Re: Time to remove CFLAGS note from glibc?

2005-10-06 Thread silverspurg
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Tushar Teredesai wrote: Is it time to remove the obsolete note about unsetting CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS from the glibc instructions? As a user I feel that every package should build correctly with envvars as thin as possible. I'm jealous about my envvars. BTW, Greg S. has

Re: Time to remove CFLAGS note from glibc?

2005-10-06 Thread silverspurg
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Guess that's what I get by trying to follow a thread through the news server. Have you tried get all new messages? *ducks* Steven -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See

Re: My status

2005-10-03 Thread silverspurg
Everyone has something which takes a large part of their life and occasionally hedges out other important things. If it's going to be LFS it's not such a bad way to go. The trick is to not get too stressed out when you notice other things falling behind. Steven -- --

Re: My status

2005-10-03 Thread silverspurg
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Jim Gifford wrote: I think the person who wrote the email needs to grow up and get a life. So much hostility... :) I've found that the best way to deal with things like that is, if at all possible, to refuse to acknowledge that they exist. Never throw good posts after