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Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> skribis: |
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> I hope that you are right, but when I see distributions like "Linux |
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> From Scratch," which purport to give the user total understanding |
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> and control of his system, not including alternatives to udev I begin |
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> to have serious doubts. |
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Having built LFS and CLFS systems, I can say the process is not very |
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informative, at least not anymore. It is basically like those old |
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Radio Shack electronics kits where they told you what to solder where, |
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but you still were given very little if any idea how the device |
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worked. Stick udev here, stick pam there, etc. What you _do_ learn is |
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(a) how to bootstrap a Linux OS from another Linux OS (in a bit more |
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detail than you learn with modern Gentoo) and (b) how to use GNU |
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Autotools much more effectively. This is like learning how to solder, |
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but not like learning electronics. |
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I do not see what is so difficult to understand about our |
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position. Imagine if Gentoo started requiring that you use a generic |
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kernel, because upstream software no longer worked if you configured |
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your own kernel. You’d still be getting free-as-in-beer software, but |
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effectively you would have lost some of your liberty. |
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