Re: SLFS book chapter proposals

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:13:43PM +0200, Christos Gioran wrote:
> 
> OK, that would prove to require the minimum space required and consistence 
> with the LFS book (duplication of information in my opinion is a bad idea). 
> But, even though this approach will prove optimum to all who have a clue, how 
> about these "poor" fellows that start now? The would have to cross-reference 
> between two books (three, if packages from BLFS are included), and that would 
> cause at least confusion.

Not when SLFS is an _extension_ to LFS. You read and build LFS first,
then you read SLFS to secure it.

In LFS, things are done differently depending on your newbness to LFS.
If you haven't ever done it before, you will follow everything
step-by-step (hopefully). But as you get more comfortable with the
process you start tweaking, following the links to the hints for some
packages, etc. The same process should hold true with SLFS. A newb reads
LFS, builds it according to the instructions, decides to tackle SLFS,
and again builds accordingly. After becoming comfortable, he will start
to build differently. Things like applying security patches the first
time to avoid recompile, splitting filesystems _before_ building,
scripting the creation of different conf files. It's a continuous
learning process, and just because I don't build LFS by-the-book,
doesn't mean the book should be written to how I build my system. The
beauty of *IX is that there are so many ways to accomplish the same
thing, but for a book, we need to define only one way and let experience
guide people to do things differently.

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Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the
government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet. The
Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms
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have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI
agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no
right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances."

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