[clue-tech] Any Gentoo users in the group?

[Dennis J Perkins]

I use LFS but I don't know if anyone else in CLUE does.

It's time consuming, so set aside some time.  Read the book first.  Most
sections are short but a few are crucial.  Then download the source and
patches that the book lists.  You might want to create a script for each
package.

Which distro will you use to build LFS?  Occasionally one will not work,
in which case you can download the LFS live CD and use that.

After LFS is built, you can build BLFS and add X.org, GNOME or KDE, etc.



On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 10:52 -0600, Yuko Jonah wrote:
> While at this are there any Linux From Scratch users around, or
> someone who knows how to install this beast. would like to try it out.
> 
> On 9/1/07, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On 9/1/07, Dennis J Perkins < dennisjperkins at comcast.net>
>         wrote:
>         > On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 07:51 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
>         > > On 8/31/07, dennisjperkins at comcast.net
>         <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:
>         > > > If there are any Gentoo users in the group, do they know
>         if Gentoo is LSB compliant?
>         > > > _______________________________________________ 
>         > >
>         > > Gentoo is mostly and intentionally LSB compliant, but the
>         LSB has some
>         > > ridiculous notions about the /usr hierarchy that interfere
>         with the
>         > > ability to include multiple versions of major systems like
>         KDE and 
>         > > GNOME. Instead of throwing these i /usr/bin, they use
>         something like
>         > > /usr/kde/<rel>/bin so that KDE releases don't conflict
>         with one
>         > > another.
>         > >
>         > > Most distros live quite happily with the /usr
>         restrictions, because 
>         > > they don't care about multiple KDE/GNOME releases.
>         > >
>         >
>         > I've been exploring bootscripts and that has expanded into
>         how various
>         > distros handle them.
>         >
>         
>         I haven't really studied the LSB. My general impression in the
>         past 
>         was the the LSB was really the RH[RedHat}SB, ie that they took
>         RH
>         usage from about 5 years ago and made it the standard,
>         although I have
>         heard that Debian had significant input as well.
>         
>         Whatever. I'm not especially interested in the LSB. Gentoo
>         bootscripts 
>         are a completely new creation with dependency checking built
>         in, and
>         the runlevels are pretty much irrelevant. Even Debian/Ubuntu
>         has a
>         different scheme of runlevels. And then there's Slackware, one
>         of my
>         favorites, who have stuck with BSD style bootscripts.
>         
>         Since most users will never encounter anything but runlevel5(4
>         for
>         some distros) for gui and runlevel 6 for shutdown, the whole
>         business
>         of trying to cooerce everyone into an (IMHO) antequated
>         pattern is 
>         just a big ho-hum.
>         
>         --
>         Collins Richey
>              If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the
>         worries
>              of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
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> 
> -- 
> Yuko Jonah
> 
> -There is no evil greater than that committed by those who claim to do
> their deeds in the name of God. 
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