Re: Moving packages from/to BLFS to/from LFS

On 9/4/25 12:30 PM, Bruce Dubbs ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing 
List) wrote:
> I'm removing the discussion to keep this post to a reasonable level. See the previous 
> posts in the thread to review the context.
> 
> I have already moved pcre2 from BLFS to LFS.
> 
> I plan on moving sqlite today.  The issue there is the documentation. There are 
> several options:
> 
> 1. Don't bother with the documentation.
> 2. Just add a comment that the docs are in zip format and the user can
>     install them on their own after libarchive is installed in BLFS.
> 3. Create a tar.xz version of the documentation and place it on anduin.
> 4. Install libarchive.
> 
> This last option has a dependency chain:
> 
> libarchive  38
>    libxml2   64
>      icu     38
>    lzo        6
>    nettle     9
>      valgrind
>        5 optional dependencies
> 
> The numbers above are the counts of <xref>s in BLFS to the associated package.
> 
> If I move libarchive, I would also want to install libxml2, icu, and lzo.  I know we 
> don't strictly need lzo, but it is a very short build that some users might want for
> efficiency (speed) purposes.  I do not want to move valgrind to LFS because I think 
> many users do not build it at all.  The nettle package is not needed at all here 
> because libarchive can use openssl to do the same thing.
> 
> I'll note that any dependencies that are not added would be mentioned in Appendix C, 
> Dependencies in the section 'Optional dependencies' for each package.
> 
> I am inclined to do option 3 above right now and think about libarchive and friends a 
> little more.  However, to me, the number of explicit dependencies that can be removed 
> from BLFS is a strong reason to do option 4.

Some interesting stats about option 3:

drwxrwxr-x 8 bdubbs bdubbs  12K Jul 30 14:42 sqlite-doc-3500400
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bdubbs bdubbs 5.9M Sep  4 12:41 sqlite-doc-3500400.tar.xz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bdubbs bdubbs  11M Aug  1 06:55 sqlite-doc-3500400.zip

$ du -sh sqlite-doc-3500400
37M     sqlite-doc-3500400

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