Re: Dependencies LFS-BLFS (was Re: UTF8 nitpicks)

2006-01-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris Staub wrote these words on 01/12/06 21:58 CST: > On the other hand, adding dependency info about LFS packages to BLFS now > would make things somewhat easier when an LFS package is removed or > replaced. I don't think you've understood the point of the discussion, Chris. It is simply not

Re: Dependencies LFS-BLFS (was Re: UTF8 nitpicks)

2006-01-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Staub wrote: > On the other hand, adding dependency info about LFS packages to BLFS now > would make things somewhat easier when an LFS package is removed or > replaced. Perhaps, to cover people who don't build every LFS package as > well as the future possibility of an LFS package being rem

Re: Dependencies LFS-BLFS (was Re: UTF8 nitpicks)

2006-01-12 Thread Chris Staub
Randy McMurchy wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 01/10/06 12:41 CST: Those are good picks since there is a lot of linking to these packages in BLFS. A special policy would have to be approved, though. It is not so much a policy being approved, it would be more a method of *how to do

Re: Dependencies LFS-BLFS (was Re: UTF8 nitpicks)

2006-01-10 Thread Richard A Downing
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:40:35 + Richard A Downing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:25:45 -0600 > Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Richard A Downing wrote these words on 01/10/06 03:26 CST: > Perhaps I'm in a minority, but I would really quite like to see > de

Re: Dependencies LFS-BLFS (was Re: UTF8 nitpicks)

2006-01-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/10/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Where would it end? Reader X wants LFS package A, B, and C listed > in BLFS. Reader Y wants package D, E and F listed. And so forth > and so on. > Yeah, I know. It's totally subjective and would be a PITA. Maybe I'll get around to writing

Re: Dependencies LFS-BLFS (was Re: UTF8 nitpicks)

2006-01-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 01/10/06 12:41 CST: > Those are good picks since there is a lot of linking to these packages > in BLFS. A special policy would have to be approved, though. It is not so much a policy being approved, it would be more a method of *how to do it*. Would it just be

Re: Dependencies LFS-BLFS (was Re: UTF8 nitpicks)

2006-01-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 1/10/06, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On 1/10/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Some policy would have to be made to prevent >>>packages like coreutils and gawk that would show up everywhere. Just >>>a thought. I guess BDB is the main

Re: Dependencies LFS-BLFS (was Re: UTF8 nitpicks)

2006-01-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/10/06, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/10/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Some policy would have to be made to prevent > > packages like coreutils and gawk that would show up everywhere. Just > > a thought. I guess BDB is the main one that bugs me. > >

Re: Dependencies LFS-BLFS (was Re: UTF8 nitpicks)

2006-01-10 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 1/10/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some policy would have to be made to prevent > packages like coreutils and gawk that would show up everywhere. Just > a thought. I guess BDB is the main one that bugs me. Ditto. For me, in the current LFS book, I would prefer BLFS mention

Re: Dependencies LFS-BLFS (was Re: UTF8 nitpicks)

2006-01-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Chris Staub wrote these words on 01/10/06 07:59 CST: > > >>I'm in that minority too. I haven't suggested it because I know that >>BLFS always assumes that you have a base LFS system including every >>package in LFS, but it would still be nice to have all the dependency

Re: Dependencies LFS-BLFS (was Re: UTF8 nitpicks)

2006-01-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 01/10/06 08:11 CST: > I have no idea how that would be feasible, but I agree. I'd like to > know what BLFS packages use BDB, especially since it's still included > in the BLFS book. Some policy would have to be made to prevent > packages like coreutils and gawk

Re: Dependencies LFS-BLFS (was Re: UTF8 nitpicks)

2006-01-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris Staub wrote these words on 01/10/06 07:59 CST: > I'm in that minority too. I haven't suggested it because I know that > BLFS always assumes that you have a base LFS system including every > package in LFS, but it would still be nice to have all the dependency > information. Also, you'd pr

Re: Dependencies LFS-BLFS (was Re: UTF8 nitpicks)

2006-01-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/10/06, Richard A Downing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:25:45 -0600 > Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well, actually, they have been commented out. It would be really > > easy to > > > > grep -lr 'linkend="db"/>' * > > > > from the root of the XML tree an

Re: Dependencies LFS-BLFS (was Re: UTF8 nitpicks)

2006-01-10 Thread Chris Staub
Richard A Downing wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:25:45 -0600 Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Richard A Downing wrote these words on 01/10/06 03:26 CST: On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:10:04 -0600 Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The BDB dependencies have already been removed from SVN

Dependencies LFS-BLFS (was Re: UTF8 nitpicks)

2006-01-10 Thread Richard A Downing
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:25:45 -0600 Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard A Downing wrote these words on 01/10/06 03:26 CST: > > On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:10:04 -0600 > > Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>The BDB dependencies have already been removed from SVN BLFS. > > > >