Re: SLFS as an extention to LFS

On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 12:56:16PM -0500, Robert Day wrote:
> 
> If you mean build SLFS using LFs as a host, then that is fine.  But I
> don;t see why it is needed to build LFS as a host.

I guess I should still have been more specific. The purpose for building
LFS is not so much to achieve a known host, though that is a *very*
powerful assumption and if we can make it we should. The real impetus
behind reading and installing LFS first is to teach the basics, and also
to grasp the concept and idea of the *LFS projects. LFS *is* the
foundation of SLFS and SLFS should be written accordingly. Otherwise, if
we were to bypass the LFS book, tons of information is lost. Remember,
LFs isn't just a book about how to build your own system, but why you
would want to build your own. One of those "why's" is to learn, and it
would be a slap in the whole LFS community's face if we ignored that or
tried to duplicate it.

> they should be able to pick up SLFS book, and build the entire
> system from there, using their existing distro as the host.

That adds unnecessary layers of testing requirements that are worked out
in LFS. We needn't spend time on something that is done for us by them.

> The two books are completely different.  LFS builds a barebones base,
> with no emphasis on security or servers, or desktops - just a base.

And a perfect base upon which to harden before the cruft creeps in.

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