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Re: GNU From Scratch
From: |
Patrick Leslie Polzer |
Subject: |
Re: GNU From Scratch |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:43:14 +0100 |
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:22:00 +0100
Alfred M\. Szmidt <"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>> wrote:
| No, it is a waste of time. More often than not you learn nothing,
| since you are simply following steps that someone else has written for
| you. Following instructions blindly is not learning, or exploring.
I am sure if you'd post your opinion on the appropriate LinuxFromScratch
mailing list a lot of people will disagree with you...
| Making a usable system that is easy to upgrade, maintain, and use is
| far more work than compiling things from scratch into some directory
| (which I can do in about a minute, excluding compilation time). We
| are currently working on making the last missing bits of the GNU
| system fit
Is the GNU project propagating "one size fits all" here?
I'd rather think not...
Leslie
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